# Concision

Always work to make your app instantly understandable. The main function of your app should be immediately apparent. You can do this in a number of ways, but one of the best ways is by sticking to a principal of concision.

## Avoid Feature Bloat

It's often very tempting to continue adding more and more features into your app. However, it is important to recognize that every new feature has a price. Specifically, every time you add a new feature:

* Your app gets slower, consumes more resources, and takes up more disk space.
* Your app's interface becomes more cluttered and thus harder to use.
* More time is spent implementing this new feature, rather than perfecting an old feature.
* More code can often mean a greater possibility for bugs.
* More features means more work on documentation, translations, etc.

## Think in Modules

Build small, modular apps that communicate well. elementary OS apps avoid feature overlap and make their functions available outside of themselves through [Launcher Actions](https://docs.elementary.io/develop/apis/launchers#actions) and make use of [Portals](https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html). This both saves you time as a developer (by other apps making their functions available to you), and is a courteous gesture towards other developers (by making your app's functions available to them).