After a long hiatus from blogging, and a short vacation, I was finally able to catch up on some reading. So to kick off the new year here is a review on one of the books I just finished, The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda.

The Laws of Simplicity is a concise summary of John Maeda’s thoughts on design. I found this book to be an awakening of subconscious design principles we already posses. It was not a text book explanation of esoteric theories from an academic. All of the authors ‘laws’ were related to real world observations and application. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is involved in product development of any type, and especially for those involved in software.

To quote the author’s mentor “Be a lightbulb not a laser beam.” Read the book and you’ll get an illuminated feeling and a better understanding of your own thoughts on design.