Simplicity

I spend a great deal of time trying to make things, work, interactions, and life simple for myself and everyone who is part of my life.

This book by John Maeda that I just read is a great resource and ready reckoner for anyone who wants to understand and imbibe simplicity.

The 10 Laws and 3 Keys are as follows:

Laws

1. Reduce: The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction
2. Organise: Organization makes a system of many appear fewer
3. Time: Savings in time feel like simplicity
4. Learn: Knowledge makes everything simpler
5. Differences: Simplicity and complexity need each other
6. Context: What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral
7. Emotion: More emotions are better than less
8. Trust: In simplicity we trust
9. Failure: Some things can never be made simpler
10. The One: Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful

Keys

1. Away: More appears less by simply moving it far far away
2. Open: Openness simplifies complexity
3. Power: Use less, gain more