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The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
John Maeda • 3 highlights
amazon.com
The better the investor, the simpler the questions. When I started, I was obsessed with jargon, complex questions and spreadsheets. Now I ask things like “what does it do?”, “why do people buy it?”, and “why are you selling?”. And I never do more math than I can fit on a napkin.
Jeremy Giffontwitter.comA great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:
Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play
The opportunity lost by increasing the amount of blank space is gained back with enhanced attention on what remains. More white space means that less information is presented. In turn, proportionately more attention shall be paid to that which is made less available. When there is less, we appreciate everything much more.
John Maeda • The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
“Because there’s an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.”
From The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the disco... See more
andrea and
Smaller and simpler software with one core feature always makes me more focused. Every time I want to write something I open a simple text editor instead of something more complex like Notion or Google Docs. Feature bloat creates so much distraction and friction for me, to the point where I just sit and stare at the screen instead of actually doing
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