John Maeda's Laws of Simplicity

Authors

  • Fábio Fernandes Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Technology, Course of Technology in Digital Games, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2018i18p129-130

Abstract

A discussion that never leaves the agenda - and it seems that it won't any time soon - is how the advent of new technologies seems to have "backfired", let's say: for example, the more access we have to information, the less we end up absorbing, due to the immense amount of data, apparently unmanageable in our daily lives. John Maeda knows this well. At the age of 52, this award-winning designer helped change the course of product design with a successful campaign at Philips, focusing on the concept of simplicity. The slogan "sense and simplicity" (in an almost literal translation, although the slogan has not been officially translated) has become the company's flagship brand worldwide.

Author Biography

Fábio Fernandes, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Technology, Course of Technology in Digital Games, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Fábio Fernandes is a writer, professor and researcher. Author of several academic and fiction books, he is a professor of Narrativity and Screenwriting in the Digital Game Technology course at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo.

Published

2018-12-05