Can your UI do PARKOUR?

180px-pksautdebras.jpgIf you don’t know what Parkour is, read the wikipedia description below. The philosophy applies very well to software design – you should be building multiple paths for task completion. More redundancy is a GOOD thing! Everyone figures out their own shortcuts! If you’re one of those stodgy, old-fashioned “software-as-a-product” types – Get with it!

Parkour
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A traceur performs a saut de bras.
Parkour is a physical discipline of French origin in which the participant called a traceur who attempts to pass in obstacles in the fastest and most direct manner possible. The obstacles can be anything in the environment, so parkour is often practiced in urban areas because of many suitable public structures, such as buildings, rails, and walls.

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