My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.
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Role of the Designer
The role of the designer is that of a very good, thoughtful host anticipating the needs of his guests.
Simple is Good
Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to feel we can dominate them. As you bring order to complexity, you find a way to make the product defer to you. Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. For example, to have no screws on something, you can end up having a product that is so convoluted and so complex. The better way is to go deeper with the simplicity, to understand everything about it and how it’s manufactured. You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
Constraints
Here is one of the few effective keys to the design problem — the ability of the designer to recognize as many of the constraints as possible — his willingness and enthusiasm for working within these constraints. Constraints of price, of size, of strength, of balance, of surface, of time and so forth.
Simplicity
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
You Don’t Understand It
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.