Quotes About Simplicity

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

Think more design less

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

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

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

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.

Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

Don't think too much of style.

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.

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.