Apparently we all now want a return to simplicity. We’ve been seduced by technology to busy our brains with making things more and more complex, including, ahem, banking.
Paul Johnson writes about how the Western car industry suffered because of the designers’ need to over-engineer, compared to the Japanese way of designing things from the user’s point of view.
Lovely quote from Schumacher (EF not Michael): “Any intelligent fool can invent further complications but it takes genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.”
Read some more at here.
