John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity:
- REDUCE – The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction
- ORGANIZE – Organization makes a system of many appear fewer
- TIME – Savings in time feel like simplicity
- LEARN – Knowledge makes everything simpler
- DIFFERENCES – Simplicity and complexity need each other
- CONTEXT – What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral
- EMOTION – More emotions are better than less
- TRUST – In simplicity we trust
- FAILURE – Some things can never be made simple
- THE ONE – Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful
I think no. 4 is most important and need a higher position. Without knowledge you canot actualize no. 1.
Best,
GR
Remember, Occams Razor is no natural law. It is just a handy tool in many cases. The trouble is that it is neutral to empirical facts.
With regards
Jørgen