Pär Almqvist 談 Keep it simple, stupid!

(http://antbsd.twbbs.org/~ant/wordpress/?p=890, August 9th, 2007)

這是 Smashing Magazine 介紹 Simplicity 一系列文章中的其中一篇。我摘要的第一篇，「Keep it simple, stupid!」。

Key points

• “Keep it simple, stupid”、”Kill your darlings” 和 “Less is more” 都常拿來指 simplicity。
• Content is king, consistency is queen

Definition of Simplicity

• “the absence of unnecessary elements”
• “the essence”
• Simplicity doesn’t equal boring. Simplicity doesn’t equal shallow. Simplicity is especially important when designing information- and media-rich interfaces.
• Simplicity isn’t a design style, it’s a perspective on design, an approach which often creates the most beautiful and the most usable results.
• A common mistake is to think that obtaining simplicity is a matter of reduction, of reducing something which is more complete than the “simple” end result. On the contrary, simplicity requires serious thought and effort.
• “A modern paradox is that it’s simpler to create complex interfaces because it’s so complex to simplify them.”