Simplicity. A word to live by. An unending quest. The holy grail of software. As software makers our raison d’être is making complex tasks easy. We’re back to that elusive word–simplicity. In a beautiful twist of irony it turns out that even thinking about simplicity involves a great deal of complexity. Enter John Maeda’s Ten Laws. I’ve read Maeda’s laws in the past, but as I’ve matured as a software developer they resonate more and more with each passing day. Here are a few of my favorites:
-
RSS Feeds
-
Categories
-
Archives
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- October 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- August 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- December 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005



One Trackback
[...] Simplicity (read even if you are not a software developer) from http://www.brooksandrus.com [...]