Design Simplicity Quotes

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.

"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

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

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

No solution can be more elegant than the problem at which it is aimed allows.

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.

All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.