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Tesler’s Law of Communication

Why Leaders Must Absorb Complexity

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Mirek Stanek
Aug 17, 2026
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In product design, there is a fundamental principle known as Tesler’s Law, or the Law of Conservation of Complexity (see on the laws of UX). It states that every system has a baseline of complexity that cannot be destroyed—it can only be shifted.

As a designer or engineer, you face a choice: you can either force the user to navigate a complicated interf…

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