[Sigia-l] Simplicity

[Ziya Oz]

Somebody emailed me about a quote:

"Accept the fact that some things can never be made simple."

which I believe is from John Maeda's book, "The Laws of Simplicity."

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10933>
<http://tinyurl.com/3385od>

I haven't read it, so I couldn't comment on his take. But I spent the entire
weekend looking at a 200MB Visio file of a very un-simple business process,
which when plotted would cover an entire conference wall. My job is to
drastically simplify it. I haven't personally seen many things that are so
inherently un-simple that they can never be made simple. Have you?

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Ziya

Usability >  Simplify the Solution
Design >  Simplify the Problem