Quotes on Simplicity In Design

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. ... The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.