John Maeda’s 10 Laws of Simplicity
- Reduce — The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction
- Organize — Organization makes a system of many appear fewer
- Time — Savings in time feel like simplicity
- Learn — Knowledge makes everything simpler
- Differences — Simplicity and complexity need each other
- Context — What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral
- Emotion — More emotions are better than less
- Trust — In simplicity we trust
- Failure — Some things can never be made simple
- The One — Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful