Comments on: Law 8: Trust

by: Pascal Chirol

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:29:15 +0000

Can we use this law for “LOVE” ?
You use a heart in front of the rules !
Do you think love can be simple ?
Does simplifying love give more means ?!

…
In love we trust.

by: Igor Pismensky

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:28:35 +0000

Some 45 years ago, my shop teacher stressed KISS or “Keep It Simple Stupid”. I’ve tried to do so ever since with various degrees of success. I’ve found that if done correctly, there are two byproducts. The first elegance and the second that it becomes instinctual or as Ash Donaldson said “familiar”.

by: Ash Donaldson

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:00:41 +0000

To echo Kokomo, I often open my Human Factors presentations with a quote from one of the fathers of the science, Alphonse Chapanis. In 1982 he stated the truism:
“It is easy to make things hard.
It is hard to make things easy.”

I guess, for me, the trust issue in simplicity comes out of my personal definition: Simplicity is achieved when we don’t have to consciously think.

Now, not having to consciously think about something makes simplicity a personal thing. It depends on my background; my experiences; my skills; my knowledge; my context; and my mental model of how the world works. These factors can and do differ between individuals. It can mean that even the most complex tasks are simple - to me.

I don’t even have to think about driving a car or flying an aircraft, yet others may find these to be complex tasks. I don’t have to think about calculating the trajectory or acceleration of an incoming ball to catch it. For me, it’s simple. For a machine, it’s complex.

If something is simple to me, it’s often familiar. If it’s familiar, I can better predict outcomes. If I can better predict outcomes, I can better trust it.

In simplicity we trust.

by: Olek

Sat, 26 May 2007 11:01:18 +0000

Simplicity is elementary. Elementary is simplicity.

by: Olek

Sat, 26 May 2007 11:00:26 +0000

Simplicity is elementary. Elememntary is simplicity.

by: Ajay Singh Niranjan

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:06:29 +0000

“In simplicity we trust”

You are very right. Trust wants transparency. Transparency wants simplicity. Simple …and again simple facilitate a true feeling of trust.

I feel that your equations of simplicity are very simple and understandable for all.

Best wishes,

Warm regards & thanks
Ajay Singh Niranjan
http://greathumancapital.wordpress.com/tag/mind/

by: maeda

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:43:51 +0000

Thanks Matteo. It's a somewhat abstract book because I believe in an open approach. Best wishes, John

by: Matteo La Rosa

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:55:05 +0000

I’ve just finished your impressively precious book.
I love when a book surprise me as well as when there’s someone more important than me that explains so clearly what I feel like a sentiment.

In Italy simplicity is not the first quality to look at, unfortunately, but nevertheless I still believe in a new wave for technology (or, better, for life) where men, and not other things, are the fulcrum… and I believe that through the internet it could be done a lot of work towards this target, that’s what I am also working at day by day.

Thank you for explaining SIMPLICITY in such a SIMPLY, not definitive way.

by: maeda

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:44:03 +0000

Thank you for your story Elaine. How to balance confidence and humility — a nice challenge indeed. Best wishes for 07, John

by: Elaine

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:54:33 +0000

I was recently given your book by a colleague and friend. With some 23 years of my working life in graphic design I found your writing easy to read and entralling from a design point of view. What I had not expected was that it would be of such value to me in my life now as a health and wellbeing practitioner. Whilst realising the obvious (one stated) aim of ‘improved’ not having to mean something added on - I especially found the concept of omakase to be a huge support. To have the confidence to be a Master and to assess my clients’ needs but to pull back from “the enemy of greatness” “when pleasing the customer is the true priority”. In that there is a less is more - more or less? question - the balance of simplicity and complexity in that very idea itself.

A truly inspirational thought and one I shall ponder on more. Thank you.