Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that’s a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That’s not simple.
Jony Ive
Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.
Industrial Design
Simplicity
Most accidents are thought to be caused by what is referred to as human error, yet most of them are actually due to design errors rather than errors of human operation.
William Lidwell
The Director of Design at Stuff Creators Design in Houston and author of the best-selling design book, Universal Principles of Design.
Design Principles
Industrial Design
UX Design
When we are at these early stages in design . . . often we’ll talk about the story for the product—we’re talking about perception. We’re talking about how you feel about the product, not in a physical sense, but in a perceptual sense.
Jony Ive
Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.
Famous Products
Industrial Design
Perception
The total complexity of a system is a constant: as we make the person’s interaction simpler, the hidden complexity behind the scenes increases.
Larry Tesler
A pioneering computer scientist who helped make it easier for us to interact with computers, whether cutting and pasting text or selecting text by dragging a cursor through it. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!