Category Archives: doing less

Wrapping Paper

August 27, 2007 – 8:41 am

I love really intricate graphical treatments around page elements, I also really hate putting extra code fluff into pages. The way I see it, if a chunk of markup is only there strictly for aesthetic purposes, it’s on the chopping block. The more garbage code you have in your document, the tougher it is for […]

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Simplicity and Failure

April 30, 2007 – 8:59 am

Last week at Flash in the Can John Maeda presented from his book on the Ten Laws of Simplicity and it got me thinking about my own consolidation efforts. The one law that struck most true to me was one that he didn’t cover in his speech, Law #9: Failure.

Some things can never […]

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