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simplicity
We learned the hard way that new products are hard enough to figure out, and we should make as many things as familiar as possible. Again, life and new products are hard enough. When you can use a familiar term instead of being original, do so. Never opt for a solution that is more creative but less effective.
Scott Belsky • Crafting The First Mile Of Product
A 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 easiest thing is the hardest. It is harder to be simple than it is to be complex.
andrea and
One of the many things I learned from @gentry about design is the idea of *informed simplicity*
Breaking through to a better idea by subtraction, rather than addition, is the most satisfying kind of breakthrough.
-Jason Fried
#032 Peeling Back
commondiscourse.xyzThe 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)
he is a reducer, not a producer.