Keep It Simple… the difficult task of paring things down

I spend my days working hard to keep things simple: gathering all the ideas that could go into a product (good and bad) and paring these down to the most effective and usable user experience possible. So, Mark Twain’s quote resonates:

I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

So whether it applies to a letter to your best friend, the model of an interaction with the world around you, the flow of a process, or the way you set up your living room, simplicity rules.

Thanks to the folks at Zen Habits for addressing the subject directly The Forgotten hd .

Here’s a great nugget from Pare It Down: Cut Away the Extraneous to Leave the Awesome on things to consider when paring down:

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• Spend a few minutes thinking about what is really essential.

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  What is it that you really want above all else? What is it about your product or service that the customer really wants? What is it you are really trying to communicate? If you had to pick one thing about whatever you’re doing, what would it be?

• Be bold. Don’t be afraid to throw stuff out. You can always add stuff back in later — remember that less is better as long as you’re leaving in the essentials.
• What is blocking the essentials? Wake of Death rip Sometimes the awesome in something is being blocked by other things — can you remove those things to show the awesome and let it shine? Remove the noise to let the music be heard.
• Come back to it. Sometimes you can’t see the extraneous the first time you start paring down. So do your best, and then come back later and try again. You might be able to pare down even more this time. Keep coming back as long as you can — the more you pare, the better in most cases.

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