simple archives
The Seduction of Simple. Fantastic article by Aza Raskin.
I love simple applications. Enter your zipcode and it tells you if you will need your umbrella today or not. That’s it.
On the result screen you can optionally enter your phone number to get an SMS only on days that you will need an umbrella.
“Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.”Jean-Louis Gassée referring to Apple’s recent MobileMe launch (source).
“Simplicity is often responsible for the ‘dumbing’ of information rather than the illumination of it.”Michael Hoffman speaking on the difference between simplicity and clarity
“Flow, as a mental state, is characterized by a distorted sense of time, a lack of self-consciousness, and complete engagement in the task at hand. For designers, it’s exactly the feeling we hope to promote in the people who use our sites.”Jim Ramsey, in his excellent article in ALA 250