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November 13, 2005
Good article in Fast Company re: simplicity
In the November Fast Company there's a good article by Linda Tischler - "The beauty of simplicity" - that highlights the eternal struggle in product design between ease of use and sophistication of features. The elegance of the simplicity of Google's home page vs the "integrated remote" controllers. It's the issue many people have around customizing GTD - how cool can I make and automate my system and still keep it simple enough to use when I don't feel like doing system? Lots of great ideas work in your head, but in your hands they die a sure death.
Posted by David at November 13, 2005 11:38 AM
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Would you provide a link to the article?
Thanks.
Posted by: Al Rossi at November 14, 2005 07:17 AM
David here - Al, well here's the link - http://www.fastcompany.com/subscr/100/beauty-of-simplicity.html - but it requires subscription to get it on line. I'll always post a link if it's free, but people complained when I linked to fee- based online material.
Posted by: David at November 14, 2005 02:48 PM
The article can also be found here:
http://www.dcontinuum.com/content/news.php?id=247
Posted by: Lindsay at November 14, 2005 07:43 PM
For me simplicity was the Macintosh trick. Networking two Macs involves plugging a cord into them both, finished. I am still looking for the "Hipster GSM phone" which is enormously sturdy (you can drop it repeatedly without risk), has tremendous battery life (two weeks active use on one charge)and can just make calls...
Posted by: Tim at November 16, 2005 11:19 PM