The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda - Summary & Notes

This is a relatively easy read from John Maeda, who was a professor at the MIT Media Lab, before becoming President at the Rhode Island School of Design and then venturing into the corporate world. The book itself presents laws he has created for simplifying both your life, and the things you may work on or design. The laws presented are useful, and the book is short. However, most of the core, actionable content could have been presented in a long blog post. Simplicity SanityThere are threeflavours of simplicity discussed here, where the successive set of three Laws (1 to 3, 4 to 6, 7 to 9) correspond to increasingly complicated conditions of simplicity: basic, intermediate, and deep.Of the three clusters, basic simplicity (1 to 3) is immediately applicable to thinking about the design of a product or the layout of your living room.On the other hand, intermediate simplicity (4 to 6) is more subtle in meaning, and deep simplicity (7 to 9) ventures into thoughts that are still ripening...