[ponderings]

The interesting thing in the moment was not the formula necessarily but the idea to start with the interface.

If you are dealing with such monstrosity of an application all battles are lost at the interface level. It has to work for everyone, there is no room for excuses about dumb users, they are the target audience.

While in the US the number seems infinite, in the Netherlands we have roughly 140 000 laws that each could have a series of check boxes and sliders. Say we all do 4 per day, that would be only 1460 annually. It would take 100 years which seems to long. At 40 per day it would require to much effort.

If the interface is to work as desired a large amount of law needs to go.

We should burn the books most worthy first. Experts can compete finding the most nonsensical laws. Short videos can be made to explain why the law exists.

We assign a good number of test subjects to pick the least likeable ones until we have a good list of candidates unlikely to survive.

There must be a good feedback report of the terrible implications after a law is deleted.

I can see it already, naked people around camp fires, drinking booze in public, selling food after sundown, making music without a license, singing songs insulting the monarch.