TV remote control with tons of buttons.

If we adopt more and more (pull requests), we will end up with dirty software with a lot of buttons, like a TV remote control with a lot of buttons, with a lot of gobbledygook and subtle perfection options.

TV remote control is full of buttons.

“Casual gamers tend to request more elements, which makes the game more complex.” The reason why this happens is the same principle as a TV remote control full of buttons. Making a small number of button combinations work is loaded for many people’s cognition = “cognitively complex.” That is why the “cognitively simple design” that “one function is triggered by pressing one button” is chosen. As a result, TV remotes are full of buttons and the remotes look “complicated”.

There are a lot of buttons on the remote that I don’t use.

Difficult to find the desired button due to the many unused buttons on the remote control. - cognitive load


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