Monday, April 6, 2009

John Maeda - Laws of simplicity

What does one need or use?
What can we as house designers do to help?
What should/could be done?
Why?

Law 1: Reduce
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

Law 2: Organise
Organsiation makes a system of many appear fewer

Law 4: Learn
Knowledge makes everything simpler

Law 6: Context
What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.

Law 9: Failure
Some things can never be made simple.

--John Maeda

These are the ones that I connected with in relation to the house project.

3 comments:

  1. Oh, hey! When were you reading John Maeda? There's a really excellent book of his.. intearction designs..? in the ECU library. What is this from?

    So, I think interaction design would be a better call than ID, and they've started it as a major in the Design Department here. I'm very excited about it.

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  2. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/john_maeda_on_design.html

    http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/john_maeda_on_the_simple_life.html

    Hot

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  3. I watched his TED talk 'on the simple life' and then went to his website.

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