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The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
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Rohit Bhargava • Non-Obvious 2017: How To Think Different, Curate Ideas and Predict The Future
John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, says, “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
Debra Kaye • Red Thread Thinking: Weaving Together Connections for Brilliant Ideas and Profitable Innovation
Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. For example, to have no screws on something, you can end up having a product that is so convoluted and so complex. The better way is to go deeper with the ... See more
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Simplicity is achieved when everyone can easily understand and use the design, regardless of experience, literacy, or concentration level.
Kritina Holden • Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design
Complexity can be tamed, but it requires considerable effort to do it well. Decreasing the number of buttons and displays is not the solution. The solution is to understand the total system, to design it in a way that allows all the pieces fit nicely together, so that initial learning as well as usage are both optimal. Years ago, Larry Tesler, then... See more
Don Norman • Living with Complexity (MIT Press)
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