Comments on: Simplicity as Innovation

By: Ju Hu

Ju Hu — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:39:19 +0000

What about a laptop with no applications but able to run any applications?
Let the community develop and design applications they want?
Sounds familiar?

After sometime, simplicity still grow towards complexity because users increased = variety and expectations increase.

Probably we should accept the fact that we need to turn complexity into simplicity once more. But what’s new?

By: Prakash

Prakash — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:14:50 +0000

Great post! Couldn’t agree with you more. I really believe people complicate things to make it look sophisticated.

Edward Bono has a book called ‘Simplicity’ that gives great insights how we can achieve complexity through simplicity. He believes chess is a complex game cause it achieves it’s complexity through a large number of pieces so he designed a board game with just 4 pieces.

By: viva

viva — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:33:30 +0000

Yes I think that is key when doing any product design. Although minimilist can’t be categorised as simple either, and a lot of people don’t think about that. You could have a minimalist site which is just as hard to use as a complex site.

I think no matter what we create as designers, we should have UX at the center. Whether a minimalist design suits the project or not is a whole other decision to be made.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:18:32 +0000

This is true for me. I love minimalism, like your site. Sometimes less is more.