More Emotions are Better than Less

From the Ted Conference:

John Maeda is a graphic designer and visual artist, and computer scientist at MIT's MediaLab, and author of the book "The Laws of Simplicity". Maeda says "Simplicity is about living a life with more enjoyment and less pain". Here are the ten laws of simplicity:

1. Reduce: The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction
2. Organize: Organization makes a system of many appear fewer
3. Time: Savings in time feel like simplicity
4. Learn: Knowledge makes everything simpler
5. Differences: Simplicity and complexity need each other
6. Context: What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral
7. Emotions: More emotions are better than less.
8. Trust: In simplicity we trust
9. Failure: Some things can never be made simple.
10. The one: simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful

Click here for Maeda's blog and then click on Laws for his own words on each one.