Explore integrating progressive reduction techniques into our designs.
The idea behind Progressive Reduction is simple: Usability is a moving target. A user’s understanding of your application improves over time and your application’s interface should adapt to your user.
Your proficiency in a product will decay over time without usage. As such, the proficiency reflected in the UI decays over time. Essentially, your UI regresses without usage.
The idea of “Experience Decay” is needed to balance the idea of progressive reduction. Without it, you risk creating a bad experience.
Explore integrating progressive reduction techniques into our designs.
http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/42361566927/progressive-reduction
There's a followup article explaining how to practically implement this type of feature in a Ruby on Rails app. http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/42442865260/implementing-progressive-reduction