Simplicity
Friday, October 12, 2007
{summary}Reading John Maeda's book "The Laws of Simplicity" I came to understand that while simplicity has always been a topic i reference and discuss with my work, it's really become clear that it's a major challenge in my life. In fact, it's become interesting that the renaissance of simplicity is directly juxtaposed to our increasingly complex life. I'd argue that it's not our love for simplicity that gave birth to the iPod or Google, but it's nature of wanting more in life that inherently requires it to be simple. I have no time for learning curves, long load times, convoluted answers; i need it fast, simple and easy. Instead of having a few moderately complex devices and tools, we now have many more simple, easy to use, multi-use devices. So it's a bit of a fallacy to think that as our tools and devices get simpler, life simplifies, but the end equation really ends up being quite paradoxical, simple = more.