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The most important thing a designer can do to make new technology usable is to simplify, and sometimes fewer features make a better product.

Drawn from what Sebastiaan de With said

What these subjects mean

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

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

Less, but better

What makes a design good?under our view: Good design is less: reduce to the essentials and leave nothing arbitrary Why is it harder to simplify than to add?under our view: Simplicity is subtraction: find the essence and cut everything else

What Sebastiaan de With actually said

  1. Sebastiaan de With Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide
    The most important thing you can do as a designer to make great new technology usable is to simplify.

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