Coletâneas de frases a respeito da simplicidade

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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo Da Vinci.

"Our mantra was simplicity" Donna Dubinsky, 3Com's Palm Division.

"Keep it simple and good things will happen" Jack Trout (1999) - The Power
of Simplicity.

"Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on
most." Clement Mok, Chief Creative Officer, Sapient.

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the
necessary may speak." Hans Hofmann.

"Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought." Lin Yutang.

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated
simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." Charles Mingus.

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert
Einstein.

"Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible."
Alan Kay, Disney Fellow and VP of R&D, The Walt Disney Company.

"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge." Winston Churchill.

"Simplicity plays a central role in all timeless designs. We appreciate
solutions that - all other things being equal - solve problems in a clear,
economical, fashion. The most powerful designs are always the result of a
continuous process of simplification and refinement." Kevin Mullet and
Darrel Sano (1995) - Designing Visual Interfaces.

"Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce
complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the
behavior and influences users to perform the behavior." B.J.Fogg (2003) -
Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think We Do.

"To simplify complications is the first essential of success." George Earle
Buckle.

"Simplicity is the soul of efficiency." Austin Freeman.

"...it is simplicity that is difficult to make." Bertholdt Brecht.

"In a medium already famous for 'information overload,' simplicity is a
rare and wonderful find." Jennifer Flemming (1998) - Web Navigation:
Designing the User Experience.

"Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more
of what does."
"The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work."
"Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day
decision makers." Bill Jensen (2000) - Simplicity.

"The Mother of All Qualities: Simplicity"
"Of all the principles articulated in this book, simplicity is the broadest
and perhaps the most fundamental." Paul Clements (2000) - Constructing
Superior Software.

"?the book is a manifesto to make the Web atone for the sins of computers
and regain a level of simplicity that can put humanity at peace with its
tools once again." Jakob Nielsen (2000) - Designing Web Usability: The
Practice of Simplicity.

"Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of
its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles." Frank
Lloyd Wright.

"See it big, and keep it simple." Wilfred Peterson.

"The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts." Willard Gibbs.

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is
to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." C.A.R.
Hoare.

"One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use,
what not to say. ... There's that simplicity thing again." Ron Jeffries.

"Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is
that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible." Donald Norman
(1998) - The Invisible Computer.

"Simplicity: An interface should be simple (not simplistic), easy to learn,
and easy to use. It must also provide access to all functionality of an
application. Maximizing functionality and maintaining simplicity work
against each other in the interface. An effective design balances these
objectives." Microsoft (1999) - Windows User Experience: Official
Guidelines for User Interface Developers and Designers.

Edward de Bono's Ten Rules for Simplicity:
1. You need to put a very high value on simplicity.
2. You must be determined to seek simplicity.
3. You need to understand the matter very well.
4. You need to design alternatives and possibilities.
5. You need to change and discard existing elements.
6. You need to be prepared to start over again.
7. You need to use concepts.
8. You may need to break things down into smaller units.
9. You need to be prepared to trade off other things for simplicity.
10. You need to know for whose sake the simplicity is designed.
Edward de Bono (1999) - Simplicity.

"We're humans first, beginners or experts second." Clifford Nass, CBC -
Quirks and Quarks.

"A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into
beginner and expert subsystems" Jef Raskin (2000) - The Humane Interface:
New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems.

Origem da palavra design

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A palavra Design é de uso cada vez mais frequente e abarca campos de actividade cada vez mais diversos e amplos como, por exemplo, o recém-nascido "Web design".

Na sua origem está o italiano Disegno proveniente, tal como o nosso Desenho, do latim, que ganhou no Renascimento um significado muito preciso. Desenhar era nessa altura uma actividade muito objectiva e racional que servia para conhecer melhor o Mundo. Lembremo-nos dos desenhos de anatomia de Leonardo da Vinci, considerados pela comunidade científica as primeiras ilustrações de Medicina, da longa viagem empreendida por Dürer para desenhar o hipopótamo do Papa, ou da Perspectiva linear, criada por Brunelleschi nessa época, que permitia a representação, no plano bidimensional, de formas tridimensionais. Esta descoberta científica que permitia, por exemplo, antever de forma rigorosa o interior de uma sala, tal como é observável na Última ceia de Leonardo, veio também possibilitar, pela primeira vez, a elaboração de um projecto.

Um Projecto é um conjunto de elementos gráficos rigorosos que permitem a visualização e entendimento da obra antes da sua concretização. Projecto e Design são indissociáveis.

Os ingleses tinham a palavra Draw, vinda do saxão antigo, para a actividade de desenhar, e estavam, tal como a Itália no Renascimento, na vanguarda, agora, da Revolução Industrial; assim, para significar a atitude racional necessária à industria foram à origem latina para criar o vocábulo Design.

Temos então: pela via italiana, a palavra Desenho de uso mais genérico e, pela via anglo-saxónica, a palavra Design associada a um método de trabalho - a Metodologia Projectual.

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