The 10 Laws of Design Simplicity

In an interview with John Maeda, NPR correspondent Ira Flatow questions the MIT Media Lab designer about his new book, "The Laws of Simplicity." The 10 laws are:

1. Reduce: Remove functionality
2. Organize: Organization makes a system of many seem fewer
3. Time: Savings in time feel like simplicity
4. Learn: Knowledge makes everything simpler
5. Difference: Simplicity and complexity need each other

6. Context: What lies on the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral
7. Emotion: More emotions are better than fewer
8. Trust: In simplicty we trust
9. Failure: Some things can never be made simple
10. The One: Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful

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