txt: The Laws of Simplicity - John Maeda
Law 1: REDUCE - The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. Law 2: ORGANIZE - Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. Law 3: TIME - Savings in time feel like simplicity. Law 4: LEARN - Knowledge makes everything simpler. Law 5: DIFFERENCES - Simplicity and complexity need each other. Law 6: CONTEXT - What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral. Law 7: EMOTION - More emotions are better than less. Law 8: TRUST - In simplicity we trust. Law 9: FAILURE - Some things can never be made simple. Law 10: THE ONE - Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.video: John Maeda on the simple life - TED Talks - The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art -- a place that can get very complicated. Here, he talks about paring down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art, websites and web tools. In his book Laws of Simplicity, he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for simple living and working -- but in this talk, he boils it down to one simply delightful way to be. [blip.tv ?posts_id=502779&dest=-1]
