En una época –la de las constantes distracciones–, en la que encontrar el foco puede considerarse una hazaña, la sencillez y la simplicidad tienen aún más importancia.
Es bastante conocido el ya veterano libro de John Maeda The Laws of Simplicity. Con este punto de partida, Taras Bakusevych, ha desarrollado un interesante artículo titulado How to simplify your design, en el que muestra con ilustrativos ejemplos cómo encontrar esa simplicidad tan necesaria y vencer la complejidad, que clasifica de la siguiente manera:
- Information overload
- Randomness and disorder
- New and foreign experences
- Multitasking
- Multitudes of choices
- Rely on the user memory
- Distractions and break the focus
- Repetitive and monotonous operations
Consta de los siguientes apartados:
- Build products with focused value
- Remove everything unnecessary
- Translate data into a meaningful format
- Support quick decision making
- Too many choices will scare off customers
- Provide recommendations where multiple choices are presented
- Draw users attention to the right areas
- Use color and typography to communicate a hierarchy of content
- Organizations help the system of many look fewer and more manageable
- Group related content
- Break up huge tasks in smaller steps, try one column layout
- Be transparent in communicating the process and system status
- Do the calculations for your user
- Hide complexity with progressive disclosure
- Rely on commonly accepted patterns and interactions
- Design a streamlined first-time experience
- Keep in mind ergonomics and circumstances under which product will be used
- Support inline edit and autosuggest values
- Use Smart Defaults to Reduce Cognitive Load
- Prevent errors
- Design for accessibility