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Living with Complexity (MIT Press)
The total complexity of a system is a constant. If you make a user’s interaction with a system simpler, the complexity behind the scenes increases.
Shane Parrish • Why Life Can’t Be Simpler
Many products defy understanding simply because they have too many functions and controls.
Don Norman • The Design of Everyday Things
complexity is the norm, and simplicity represents a special case of complexity, achieved by cleaving off and disregarding almost all of the vast reality that surrounds whatever it is we are for the moment modelling as simple (simplicity is a feature of our model, not of the reality that is modelled).
Iain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
There is no limit to the most complex things we will make. We’ll dazzle ourselves with new complexity in many directions. This will complexify our lives further, but we’ll adapt to it. There is no going back. We’ll hide this complexity with beautiful “simple” interfaces, as elegant as the round ball of an orange. But behind this membrane our stuff ... See more
Kevin Kelly • What Technology Wants
We often think making things for the web is a process of simplifying—the hub, the dashboard, the control panel are all dreams of technology that coalesces, but things have a tendency to diverge into a multiplicity of options. We pile on more tools and technology, each one increasingly nuanced and minor in its critical differences. Clearly, converge... See more
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain
