After writing my first post today, I remembered the book sitting on my coffee table for almost a month: "The laws of simplicity" by John Maeda. (I bought this last month at CHI in Boston).
My life is oversimplified now in this little college town. Yesterday, I was telling my friends that I need a more chaotic life, at least for a year. Then I may miss this "simplicity in the life style". I know that I am a city girl. Can we incorporate simplicity into our city life, too? We will see.
The book starts with this subtitle:
simplicity = sanity
What about simplicity in the design and technology?
I will let you know once I finish this book.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Less is more
This was the topic of my intended "first post".
I have mixed feelings about this concept of "Less is more". At times, I seem to love it, but I am definitely not a perpetual follower. This time, I started thinking about this topic while thinking about my future house.
How to you design your own houses?
I am about to start a new life in about six months. I don't know how it will be. The environment affects your choices - unless you have tons of money and create your own environment, see Dubai. Even in that case, you can only minimize the effects of environment, not get rid of them.
Let's move on.
From a sociological and cultural perspective, How do you live your life?
From HCI perspective, How do you design an interface?
Even this writing itself struggles with "less is more". How can one explain all the thoughts and not produce total junk? It is hard.
I am sure I will come back to this topic in the future.
I have mixed feelings about this concept of "Less is more". At times, I seem to love it, but I am definitely not a perpetual follower. This time, I started thinking about this topic while thinking about my future house.
How to you design your own houses?
I am about to start a new life in about six months. I don't know how it will be. The environment affects your choices - unless you have tons of money and create your own environment, see Dubai. Even in that case, you can only minimize the effects of environment, not get rid of them.
Let's move on.
From a sociological and cultural perspective, How do you live your life?
From HCI perspective, How do you design an interface?
Even this writing itself struggles with "less is more". How can one explain all the thoughts and not produce total junk? It is hard.
I am sure I will come back to this topic in the future.
Is this a sign?
I lost my first post. It was about one paragraph.
Is this a sign? Which question shall I ask myself? Well, keep going.
There are so many thoughts, I should be able to find plenty of them soon ;-)
Note to self:
The message is "Do not think, just do it". I heard that thinking is number one enemy of creativity.
Creative writing is something I never thought I can. However, I now think that it comes with practice. So let's start!!
Is this a sign? Which question shall I ask myself? Well, keep going.
There are so many thoughts, I should be able to find plenty of them soon ;-)
Note to self:
The message is "Do not think, just do it". I heard that thinking is number one enemy of creativity.
Creative writing is something I never thought I can. However, I now think that it comes with practice. So let's start!!
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