Linus On Usability: “I can guarantee you one thing: the _vast_ majority of people are part of a specific minority when it comes to something.”

This is a great screed on usability and how so called “experts” often confuse usability with interface simplification. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, but quite often, a goal of simplicity comes at the expense of usability – leading to, as Linus puts it, UNusability.

"Usability" is an issue only if you can do something at all. But if you can't do the thing at all, it's pointless to talk about usability: the thing is BY DEFINITION not usable if it cannot be used for a specific task. Then a person that claims that it's usable for something else is a FUCKING IDIOT.”

Nice.