Laws of Simplicity
May 10th, 2007 by pale_whites
For me Simplicity and Elegance go hand-in-hand. On a recent trip to the Design Museum in London I came across the book The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda.
Maeda has reduced the laws of simplicty down to 10 in number. Briefly the laws are;
- Reduce
- Organise
- Time
- Learn
- Differences
- Context
- Emotion
- Trust
- Failure
- The One : Which is a law that tries to encapsulate the all of the other nine
Maeda argues in the law ‘Differences’ that simplicty can only exist alongside complexity otherwise there is nothing to contrast simplicity against.
This book also uses the iPod in many of the laws to demonstrate the practical application of simplicity in product design.
It’s fair to say that the early ‘laws’ are more readily applied than the later ones. Concepts like ‘Reduce’ and ‘Organise’ are used and applied in business to improve efficiency.
If you are interested in a set of rules you can use in all aspects of your personal and business life then I recommend this book.
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