Art History at Dartmouth

Redesign of the Art History website at Dartmouth College.
Keep it Simple… Complex Systems Should Not be Complex to the User
I had a discussion the other day in a room full of programmers and system administrators where the conversation migrated to how usable a tool should be, in this case software, if it were a complex system. The argument from some in the room was that, “hey, it’s a complex system, it will be complex to the user”, to which my response was, “Really?”






