One of simplicity’s most outstanding attributes is that it looks, acts, and sounds perfectly natural. Your head involuntarily nods in agreement.
Author and advertising creative director. Specializing in technology marketing, Segall was Steve Jobs' agency creative director for 12 years working for NeXT and Apple, and also for Dell, Intel and IBM.
People prefer simplicity. Given the option, any sane person will choose the simple path over one that’s more complicated.
This preference is burned into the basic wiring of all living cells. When it comes to ordinary, everyday decisions, most life-forms agree: The simpler path is by far the more attractive one.
Loading...Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art.
Scottish writer, broadcaster and cleric. He was the Bishop of Edinburgh from 1986 to 2000 and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1992 to 2000.
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
A German industrial designer closely associated with functionalist school of industrial design.
To settle for second best is a violation of the rules of simplicity, and it plants the seeds for disappointment, extra work, and more meetings. Most disturbing, it puts you in the worst possible business position: having to defend an idea you never believed in.
Author and advertising creative director. Specializing in technology marketing, Segall was Steve Jobs' agency creative director for 12 years working for NeXT and Apple, and also for Dell, Intel and IBM.
