Resurgence magazine has in their online archive a delightful article summarizing wabi-sabi by Leonard Koren: A Culture of Simplicity. His book-length treatment of the subject is called Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers. Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic and philosophy of simplicity, humility and…
Don Norman is sick of hearing people talk about how Google is so simple. The truth about Google’s so-called “simplicity” is that “anybody can make a simple-looking interface if the system only does one thing”. But behind the search page, it’s not so simple after…
plentyoffish.com and the role of anti-marketing design Robert Scoble’s microsoft blog offers an interesting theory about simple (or ugly) design — that an un-designed site is somehow more appealing and makes more money. Sites like MySpace, Google, CraigsList are notoriously simple in design and also…
37signals says: We’re a privately-held Chicago-based company committed to building the best web-based software products possible with the least number of features necessary. Our products do less than the competition — intentionally. We believe software is too complex. Too many features, too many buttons, too…
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