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Simple and easy are different things, and treating simplicity as ease of use is a mistake.

Drawn from what Rich Hickey said

simplicity
What this subject means

simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

Less, but better

Which mental models should a designer think with?under our view: Less, but better: the work is finding the essence and cutting the rest Why is it harder to simplify than to add?under our view: Simple is hard: it takes more thought and time than complex, and complex is rewarded more

What Rich Hickey actually said

  1. Rich Hickey Creator of the Clojure programming language and of Datomic
    Your sensibilities about simplicity being equal to ease of use are wrong. They're just simply wrong. Right? We saw the definitions of simple and easy. They're completely different things. Right? So, easy is not simple.

    Watch from 0:58:55 plays here

    ↗"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)youtube.com

    c. 2011 · video · 1h 01m · spoken · machine transcript

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