Simplicity

Simplicity

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The best way to answer difficult questions is to avoid the need to ask them.

Ken Kocienda
Ken Kocienda

Software engineer and designer who worked for Apple for over fifteen years. Ken worked on the software teams that created the Safari web browser, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

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  • Project Management
  • Clarity
  • Communication
  • Simplicity
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Blunt is Simplicity. Meandering is Complexity.

Ken Segall
Ken Segall

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.

  • Design & Arts
  • Project Management
  • Clarity
  • Life is Complex
  • Simplicity
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The push for simplicity has a purpose. Stripping away non-essential features makes products easier for people to learn from the start and easier to use over time.

Ken Kocienda
Ken Kocienda

Software engineer and designer who worked for Apple for over fifteen years. Ken worked on the software teams that created the Safari web browser, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

  • Design & Arts
  • Product Design
  • Simplicity
  • Usability
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The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein

An Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of mind. He is considered by some to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century.

  • Design & Arts
  • Curiosity
  • Familiarity
  • Inspiration
  • Simplicity
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Simplicity is not merely a layer that can be grafted onto a business. It isn’t available in a pre-packaged version. It doesn’t work with an on/off switch.

Ken Segall
Ken Segall

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.

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  • Simplicity
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The excellence of a good design is in direct proportion to its clarity and simplicity.

Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi

An American football coach, and executive in the National Football League (NFL).

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  • Industrial Design
  • Simplicity
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Dieter Rams on Product Design
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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.

Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams

A German industrial designer closely associated with functionalist school of industrial design.

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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.

Richard Holloway
Richard Holloway

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.

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  • Art
  • Clarity
  • Simplicity
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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
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!

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  • Complexity
  • Laws of UX
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