Online software should be easy to use. Search forms and resultsets should behave as expected, links should be situated exactly where the user expects them to be, and use terms that users expect, not local jargon that takes time to learn.

MooseTrout prides itself on its high standards of laziness. We believe that online software should make the most complicated task seem trivial.

However, many online applications can make the most trivial task seem complicated. Extra clicks, strange navigation paradigms, local jargon. "Cool" or the latest technology for its own sake. Yuck.

MooseTrout -- working hard so your online users won't need to.

MooseTrout's philosophy can be summarized as follows:

1. open really is best
2. software that's easy to use