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3 min readSep 16, 2024

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“Not everything listed in the requirements document needs to be included in the product, let alone become an interface element. Design isn’t just making screens for every feature. Simplicity is achieved when you prioritize, merge, organize, reduce, combine, hide, gradually unveil, shorten, compress, and sacrifice.

Simplicity is repeatedly saying no before getting to a yes.”

Defining simplicity →

Editor picks

UX design isn’t dead, you’re just confused →
Get with the times.
By Meghan Logan
It’s time for design to think less and feel more →
Embracing sensitivity over logic.
By Darren Yeo
Seeking a “Minimum Viable Softness” →
On institutionalism, universalism & solutionism.
By Flavio Masson

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“There’s plenty of skepticism toward intelligence tests in psychology, but even the biggest skeptics agree that IQ can predict things like how well you do in school and what kind of job you get, even accounting for all the criticisms. So why doesn’t it also predict living a life that you like?”
Copying (is the way design works) →
“I’m a designer. As a designer, I feel the need to be original. If you’re a designer, or even if you’re just interested in design, you probably feel the need to be original, too. We tend to worship inventors and originators, designers who were trailblazing and innovative. And we copy them.”