Keep it as simple as you can while making the core functionality clear and open. Expect end customers to be real people who deserve respect, not primitive idiot hamsters. It is so clear to understand, and it makes life 100% better, yet there are always assholes and small-minded people who are not able to extrapolate their model of the world beyond their own lazy heads.
Take sounds, for example. Once I was in Argentina, and it was one of the worst places I have ever been in this regard. They loved nonsense, disturbing sounds everywhere. A car going out of a parking spot would make four high-pitched sounds that could be heard from 3 km away from all sides, even though it was moving out slowly with lots of mirrors. Absolutely unnecessary, yet they seemed to think people were too dumb to notice. It just made things worse. And I am not even getting started on how absurdly bad Argentinians were about dogs: it felt like every one of them had a dog barking nonstop from a balcony, with none of the normal laws or standards you would expect in places like the UK. I left Argentina as soon as I could, especially Buenos Aires.
Another example there was elevators. They liked to put loud, high-pitched, unnecessary alarms every time the door opened. It was impossible to live calmly in such buildings, because every time somebody used something as normal as a refrigerator, you got notifications like there was a fire. I once saw the same shit around the coastal Pacific area of Chile too. Even so, Chile itself is miles ahead in overall development and quality of life compared with Argentina.
Do not be like that. Keep it simple, and respect the humans around you. They usually are not stupid.
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