From last month’s Business 2.0, Simple Minds is Paul Kedrosky’s claim that “the simplicity cult has it wrong.”
Kedrosky usually makes some excellent points, and this is no different:
What we learn from airbags, then, is that the solution isn’t to eliminate features from products or to reduce the amount of information we receive. The solution is to have more features and more information in ways that are less intrusive and more carefully prioritized.
I would call this a type of simplification. Separate wheat from chaff, focus on what is important. It seems like Kedrosky is calling for there to be more layers, each one simple and pointed to the current task.
The full article is worth a read available at Business 2.0.
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June 29th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
[...] In April Paul Kedrosky wrote against the simplicity cult. When I named my biz-tech writings Simplicity Rules, I didn’t intend to join a cult. I thought I was being original, even. Now I realize there is an unmistakable collective consciousness pushing toward, among other things, white backgrounds and large fonts. [...]
December 9th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
[...] Expressing simplicity is not always simple. What some call the simplicity cult have attempted to boil down good strategies for making things easy. The problem is that this can lead to generalizations that are misunderstood. [...]
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