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This delightful read, The Laws of Simplicity, is about design, philosophy, technology, and art. It will teach you how to make your ideas and works simpler and better.
Finally, we are discovering that sanity is simple. We are rebelling against too complex technology, DVD players with many menu options, and software that comes with 75 megabytes of “read me” manuals. The sleek technology of the iPod has made simplicity trendy. The paradox of simplicity, though, can often catch us off guard. We want something that is straightforward and simple to use but that also accomplishes every complex task we might ever need it to. In his book The Laws of Simplicity, John Maeda outlines ten principles for balancing simplicity and complexity in business, technology, and design. These rules can help you need less while really receiving more.
Maeda, an internationally recognized graphic designer and professor at MIT’s Media Lab, investigates the issue of how to redefine the term “better” such that it doesn’t always mean something more, something added on.
Reduce” is Maeda’s first rule of simplicity. Adding technological features isn’t always a good idea because we can. Additionally, Law 2 requires that the features we do have to be arranged logically so that consumers aren’t diverted by functions and features they don’t require. Simplicity, though, is not less for the sake of being less. Go straight to Law 9: Failure: Recognize that some things are never going to be made simple. Maeda’s succinct primer on simplicity in the digital era demonstrates how this concept can serve as the foundation for businesses and the products they produce—how it can influence both business and technology. We can develop the skill of simplification without abandoning ease and significance and reach the equilibrium outlined in Law 10. Maeda refers to this concept as “The One,” and it states that “simplicity is about removing the obvious and adding the meaningful.
“Brian Hayes wants to persuade us that mathematics is too significant and enjoyable to be left to the professionals. His fascinating and approachable study of mathematical territory both far and near is found in Foolproof and Other Mathematical Meditations, which informs readers of mathematical concepts like Markov chains and Sudoku. Non-mathematician Hayes contends that mathematics is not just a necessary tool for comprehending the universe but also a world unto itself, containing things and patterns that go beyond the realm of the material world. Hayes takes the reader on an exploration of this foreign territory in a collection of pieces.
Math has a bad rep for being boring, challenging, and disconnected from ordinary life. The opinion of a talking Barbie doll was that “math class is hard.” But Hayes makes arithmetic appear enjoyable. Hayes wants his readers to share his passion, whether retracing the history of a well-known yarn about a great mathematical prodigy, wondering what might happen to a lost ball in the nth dimension, or demonstrating that there are such things as quasirandom numbers. Because of this, he envisions a movie on the Riemann zeta function discovery (“The year is 1972. The setting: Afternoon tea in Fuld Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey”), discusses better-than-average averages, and reveals that Sudoku does contain some math. The view from the top makes it worthwhile even though some of these writings require a climb up the learning curve.”
