Simple is good...

I came across this person's blog when I was madly clicking away trying to "solve" the widget puzzle that they had created. He/she created something called "RouteWord" - a kind of simple network of letters jumbled that you have to figure out what their connection is (tracing only the available paths) after given a clue.






I, apparently like others, had figured the answer but somehow we were "incomplete" without the picture changing, it giving us feedback, or otherwise saying "CONGRATULATIONS!" (perhaps we were looking for some kind of reward?) Well, Andrew explained his reasoning on his entry "Confusingly Simple". He says:

"We've come to so expect that everything -- online and off -- demand our attention with squawking, dancing, popping, zapping, clicking, shrieking, streaking, bleating, yammering, clamoring, or beeping that the idea of "You just look at it" seems from another era."

My own mashing actions (and even weirder the unsettled feeling of "not being done yet" that pushed me even to search more about this "broken game" and Andrew's explanation of why he made it they way he did (read his blog, I'm not telling) say more about us as slave-animals to 21st Century technology age rather than evolved masters. Andrew makes this rather profound observation with something incredibly facile, once again proving less can be more. Pavlov himself would salivate no doubt.