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## Burden or Boon?
Every feature you add to a project/product is going to add more conceptual baggage to the software. A really interesting portrayal of this can be found in UX designer and musician/composer Tantacrul's "Music Software & Bad Interface Design" series [[1]](tttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI). In this particular episode, speaking about Sibelius and its Ribbon design, he discusses at length the usefulness of a (good) Ribbon UI in helping solve a major problem that Microsoft originally, and Sibelius later, found with their software: there were just too many features to anyone to find them all. The Ribbon UI was a solution to this; we can debate at length about how successful it was, but it illustrates a real problem with software design.
Every feature you add to a project/product is going to add more conceptual baggage to the software. A really interesting portrayal of this can be found in UX designer and musician/composer Tantacrul's "Music Software & Bad Interface Design" series [[1]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI). In this particular episode, speaking about Sibelius and its Ribbon design, he discusses at length the usefulness of a (good) Ribbon UI in helping solve a major problem that Microsoft originally, and Sibelius later, found with their software: there were just too many features to anyone to find them all. The Ribbon UI was a solution to this; we can debate at length about how successful it was, but it illustrates a real problem with software design.
When you add features, those features have to both serve a purpose, and be accessible to your users.