Instructional design has always been a past time of mine. In the early days the design was mainly how-to guides on paper, using screen shots and written instrucations. As time went on, things improved and today Instructional Design is a very exciting field in my opinion. I am looking forward to developing design modules to instruct folks on everything from compliance to preliminary training after they are hired.
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. —C.A.R. Hoare
Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary. from Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men. —Gerald M. Weinberg