{"id":79,"date":"2012-08-10T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T19:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eavgeek.wordpress.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2012-08-10T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T19:46:45","slug":"the-sophistication-of-simplicity-designfestival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/2012\/08\/10\/the-sophistication-of-simplicity-designfestival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sophistication of Simplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/designfestival.com\/the-sophistication-of-simplicity\/\">DesignFestival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If something is simple, it\u2019s easy to understand or do. But as DaVinci said, \u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication.\u201d It\u2019s very difficult to make a web site interface simple, especially if the content is complex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is where elegance comes in. Elegance in this context means \u201cpleasingly ingenious and simple\u201d\u2009\u2014\u2009a smart solution to a challenging problem. Interfaces that aren\u2019t elegant are complicated, creating more difficulty and confusion instead of clarity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>via<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/\">@SitePointdotcom<\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"45%\" \/>\n<p>from the same SitePoint newsletter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/designfestival.com\/what-is-ux-design\/\">What Is UX Design<\/a>?&#8221; by James Mansfield &#8211;\u00a0In the book, we take a look at good design. But what does it take to be a good user experience designer? James interviews three\u00a0leading UX experts.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/designfestival.com\/understanding-baseline-rhythm-in-typography\/\">Understanding Baseline Rhythm in Typography<\/a>&#8221; by Matthew Magain &#8211; An introduction to the theory behind &#8220;vertical rhythm&#8221; in typography.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by DesignFestival &#8220;If something is simple, it\u2019s easy to understand or do. But as DaVinci said, \u201cSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication.\u201d It\u2019s very difficult to make a web site interface simple, especially if the content is complex.&#8221; &#8220;This is where elegance comes in. Elegance in this context means \u201cpleasingly ingenious and simple\u201d\u2009\u2014\u2009a smart solution to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}