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Laws of Simplicity

The document outlines 10 "Laws of Simplicity" according to John Maeda, including reducing elements, organizing systems to feel less complex, leveraging time savings and knowledge to achieve simplicity, recognizing the interdependence of simplicity and complexity, understanding the contextual nature of simplicity, embracing emotions, trusting simple solutions, acknowledging some problems cannot be simplified, and subtracting obvious elements while adding meaningful elements.

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Laws of Simplicity

The document outlines 10 "Laws of Simplicity" according to John Maeda, including reducing elements, organizing systems to feel less complex, leveraging time savings and knowledge to achieve simplicity, recognizing the interdependence of simplicity and complexity, understanding the contextual nature of simplicity, embracing emotions, trusting simple solutions, acknowledging some problems cannot be simplified, and subtracting obvious elements while adding meaningful elements.

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Laws of Simplicity (John Maeda, MIT Press, 2006)

Law 1: REDUCE
The simplest way of achieving simplicity is through thoughtful reduction
Law 2: ORGANIZE
Organization makes a system of many appear fewer
Law 3: TIME
Savings in time feel like simplicity
Law 4: LEARN
Knowledge makes everything simpler
Law 5: DIFFERENCES
Simplicity and complexity need each other
Law 6: CONTEXT
What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral
Law 7: EMOTION
More emotions are better than fewer
Law 8: TRUST
In simplicity we trust
Law 9: FAILURE
Some things can never be made simple
Law 10: THE ONE
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful

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