Comments on: Simple Might Be Too Complex

By: Johnny Debacle

Johnny Debacle — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:20:05 +0000

Your top nav bar breaks in IE. It’s unclickable and only partially visible. I love your greys.

By: Rimantas

Rimantas — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:21:16 +0000

There are some very simple things that can be used in multiple ways. I think that applications of 37s are just like that: they are simple but they allow flexible and creative usage. As if features are not the part of the application itself, but the way you use the application. It’s like a pencil – all it can do is to leave a mark on paper. You can use it to put one dot, to draw a complex diagram or to create a work of art.
Not to mention multitude ways in which pencil can be used and which have nothing to do with its ability to leave a mark on some surface.

By: Danny Foo

Danny Foo — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:45:13 +0000

Maybe the simple approach is just a result of proof how humans are in learning something new. We’d rather spend less time seeking out the obvious than to experiment and finding something new.

But I do agree sometimes to simplify is even more complex than just providing a comprehensive solution. :)

By: lab:kloud9 - BuzzFeed me like

lab:kloud9 - BuzzFeed me like — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:30:32 +0000

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By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:18:35 +0000

Cool people and designers don’t need college. And no you can’t be cool people and a designer at the same time, it just doesn’t work.

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:34:23 +0000

Scrivs, I went to school for like eight years. Just because I didn’t graduate doesn’t mean…

…screw it. I sucked at college. :)

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:55:54 +0000

Careful there Croftie, you keep on saying intelligent things like that people are going to assume you went to school.

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:57:26 +0000

Doing less for the sake of doing less is no better than doing more for the sake of doing more. Doing less because it is the most elegant solution to a problem, on the other hand, is a beautiful thing.