The Simplicity Manifesto
The Simplicity Manifesto is your company’s mindset booster to ignite simplicity fire. This is a collection of Designful Co’s powerful statements (or rants!) that captures simplicity best practices.
Summary / one pager / in a nut shell
Cheat sheet (have a visual concept)
A
Don’t just satisfy customers. Astonish them.
B
Revere Beauty.
C
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Einstein
D
Design is a noun, but also a verb. Master design as a verb – the user-centered design process.
E
Emotions make things simple.
F
Focus on one thing, and do it fabulously.
G
H
Speak Human
I
Interest
J
K
L
Love
Little black dress
M
Models
N
Nature
No
O
Obsess with Design
P
Only through iteration of Prototype, the complexity will be stripped off.
Be a Pain sponge. The more pain you absorb, the simpler the customer experience will be.
Q
R
Do the Right things. This is innovation.
S
Steak
Simplicity (definition)
Style
Scandinavian design
T
Test
Timeless
U
V
W
Why why why why why
X
Y
You
Simplicity starts with you.
Z
Zero? (being able to start from ground zero?)
Zest (Pay attention to detail with zest, care what you do)