📝Lowering the friction may exponentially influence the usage

Decreasing the barrier for using something may lead to more of that something being used. This happens non-linearly and the usage may unexpectedly jump from almost not usage to use all the time.

Examples

• Bit.dev decouples components and packages to lower the barrier to create a new component. This leads to creating much more (and much smaller) packages.

• By default, org-roam requires a note title when creating a new note. I noticed that it’s hard to come up with a good title upfront (creates a slight barrier to create a note). I have added a command to create a note without title (SPC n d) and I noticed that I have started creating more notes.

• Process boundaries are harder to violate than module boundaries. The reverse when process isolation (increasing the barrier) leads to significantly less boundaries violation.

See also

• Defaults matter is a specific instance of this when one alternative is easier to use than the other one.