Simplify: Keep what you use, dump the rest...

This photo (credited to Nicolas Zurcher) is from the book Designing Interactions, and it's a great statement in a single image: reduce noise, keep what you use, dump the rest. I also liked the tag on Gizmodo's post: "fixing stupidity." It's a pervasive epidemic, that almost every device remote wants to be a remote for every device - and the button clutter just grows and grows. The important ones get lost in a sea of trivial options and unused "features," and simple usefulness cedes to confusion and frustration. Without the extra buttons (and with the chamingly ugly paper sleeves), things become easily useful again. Designers, take note!