The Laws of Simplicity

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…t of the realm of their comfort level to see if they could discover a better way to do things. And by the way, these people also read books like K&R for fun like its the history book of their profession even though they have no need to write a line of C code on any daily basis. 4. I can not stand managers who think SharePoint is the next coming. Sharepoint is the biggest, and I mean biggest, piece of crap I've ever developed for. The fact that businesses fall in love with it defies me and I do not ever want to work with it ever again. People tell me I can make a ton of money advertising myself as a Sharepoint guru and I make the point that that experience is never going on my resume. 5. I like developers... ...that can code some server side (PHP, C#, Python), jump to some JavaScript to tie the client with the server code, can write some c…

…mplexity need each other. 6. Context: What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral. 7. Emotion: More emotions are better than less. 8. Trust: In simplicity we trust. 9. Failure: Some things can never be made simpler. 10. The one: Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. [From the book The laws of simplicity by John Maeda] http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Simplicity-Design-Technology-Busi...

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Design isn't an exception to most other talents. The way to get good is to do it. It helps to know how to make things, from paper prototypes drawn freehand to more serious tools. Also, from a usability perspective, there are a number of tools people use. Lots of them boil down to "figure out why people can't use this or think it's ugly". But i'm no expert. Also, it helps to have a sense of aesthetics. That usually comes when you admit something is ugly, and grows from there. There are a ridiculous number of design books out there. You could probably finish "Laws of Simplicity" in an hour. http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Simplicity-Design-Technology-Busi... Note that I'm no designer.