Simplicity Design Quotes

#1. Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

Donald A. Norman

#2. It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

Bruce Tognazzini

#3. The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [ ... ] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

Fernando J. Corbato

#4. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Bruce Lee

#5. The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.

Donald A. Norman

#6. Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

John Wesley

#7. Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

Elsie De Wolfe

#8. Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

Dieter Rams

#9. If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.

Robert Cecil Martin

#10. The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

#11. Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

Michael Bierut

#12. Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That's the beautiful simplicity of evolution. It matches design to environment.

Blake Crouch

#13. How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

Kent Beck

#14. It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.

Keith Michael

#15. Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

John Maeda

#16. Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

Jon Franklin

#17. Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.

Shawn Lukas

#18. Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Alan Cooper

#19. If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.

Thomas A Kempis

#20. When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.

Genevieve Gorder

#21. There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

Sohrab Vossoughi

#22. Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

Christoph Niemann

#23. Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.

Sailor Jerry

#24. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

Jonathan Ive

#25. I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.

Nancy Lancaster