Digital Media Core: Simplicity
There’s no doubt that this is going to be a very complicated suite of software, with complex interdependencies and configuration requirements. It’s a sophisticated solution and the administration and maintenance of such a system will require similar sophistication. However, that has nothing to do with ease-of-use for the content creators who are the ultimate users. For them, it must be simple to create content, move it around, share it with the appropriate people and edit or update it as required.
Simplicity does not infer a lack of power, although it is often achieved by paring down the base options for an end-user to reduce potential for confusion and then relying on extensions or modules to add these options only when needed (as has famously been achieved with Firefox). We will aim to achieve a very similar outcome by identifying the absolute core requirements and then having additional modules that expand the offering.
However, the focus is on harmonising the user experience, keeping common UI concepts throughout the suite and requiring minimal configuration to achieve complex goals. We may use wizards and other configuration tools but the emphasis is on keeping the default configuration useful.