Timeless guides for good design and simplicity.
According to Dieter Rams, good design has these qualities:
Innovative
Makes a product useful
Aesthetic
Makes a product understandable
Unobtrusive
Honest
Long-lasting
Thorough down to the last detail
Environmentally-friendly
As little design as possible
Reduce. The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
Organize. Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.
Time. Savings in time feel like simplicity.
Learn. Knowledge makes everything simpler.
Differences. Simplicity and complexity need each other.
Context. What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.
Emotion. More emotions are better than less.
Trust. In simplicity we trust.
Failure. Some things can never be made simple.
The one. Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.