Abundance Thinking

We have, within a short score of years, left behind a world of scarcity and entered a world of abundance, with even greater realms of abundance just beyond the horizon. Our computers are as powerful as we want them to be. We have all the bits and bytes and cycles we need to design software that really serves humans.

The opposite of scarcity thinking is abundance thinking, and good interaction designers will have this sensibility. Abundance thinking frees designers from worrying about memory, storage, or cycles. They must worry, instead, about users, and they have the design talent and training to create interfaces and behaviors that make users more effective.

How to do you change people's minds about these issues? One method is to argue from authority. Being viewed as an expert is a possible starting step, and that step involves either in-depth experience or specialized training.