前田约翰(John Maeda)
世界知名的图像设计师、视觉艺术家、电脑科技专家,也是麻省理工学院媒体实验室的教授。
前田约翰在艺术上的贡献也不容忽视,他得奖无数,例如:美国设计界最高荣誉Smithsonian杂志的国家设计奖(2001年)、日本朝日设计奖(2002年)、德国Raymond Loewy基金会奖(2005年)、戴姆勒克莱斯勒设计奖(2000年)等等。他曾在巴黎、纽约、伦敦、旧金山、东京、大阪等地举办过多次个人展览,深获好评。他的作品也被纽约现代美术馆、旧金山现代美术馆、史密森尼机构的国家设计美术馆收藏。
他曾出版多本与图像设计相关的书籍。为了训练自己的管理能力,他于2001年重做学生,攻读MBA,两年后取得学位。
想对前田约翰及他的作品做更多了解,可浏览lawsofsimplicity.com网站或他的个人网站media.mit.edu/~maeda。
发表于2024-12-26
The Laws of Simplicity 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
(一) 中国人和老外的软件有些使用的细节是不同的。 就拿输入来说,连续的输入的时候,我们喜欢用回车键(Enter键)。老外一般习惯用Tab键。老外的使用意义很明确:回车代表确定。Tab键代表跳格,重新定位。 我们呢:只要用着方便,管他怎么样都行。只要能实现同样的目...
评分 评分这是一本讲思维的书,简约不简单。 书中介绍的十条法则,每一条都值得细细品味,在日常的设计中去实践。 法则1,减少,要做到用心割舍,突出核心价值,隐藏多余的东西,让一些不起眼的东西成为意外惊喜。 法则2,组织,让系统显得更简单的方式,SLIP:分类(Sort)、标示(Label)...
评分2002年,位于荷兰的飞利浦总公司觉得,用了九年的「让我们把产品做更好」(Let’’s make things better)的这句企业宣言,似乎过时了,因为几乎所有竞争品牌也都可以把质量做到很好。 这个百年企业花一年时间,在全世界进行了多达1600个消费者的会谈,想了解消费者到底...
评分I've been reading a couple of books about design this year. The law of simplicity is an excellent book that illustrates the power and underlying theory of simplicity. Simplicity is really hard to achieve, as it is the ultimate form of complexity. Without t...
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Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, against DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" manuals. The iPod's clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up in the simplicity paradox: we want something that's simple and easy to use--but also does all the complex things we might ever want it to do. In The Laws of Simplicity, John Maeda offers guidelines, ten laws for balancing simplicity and complexity in business, technology, and design--for needing less and actually getting more.
Maeda--a professor in MIT's Media Lab and a world-renowned graphic designer--explores the question of how we can redefine the notion of "improved" so that it doesn't always mean something more, something added on.
Maeda's first law of simplicity is "Reduce." It's not necessarily beneficial to add technology features just because we can. And the features that we do have must be organized (Law 2) in a sensible hierarchy so users aren't distracted by features and functions they don't need. But simplicity is not less just for the sake of less. Skip ahead to Law 9: "Failure: Accept the fact that some things can never be made simple." Maeda's concise guide to simplicity in the digital age shows us how this idea can be a cornerstone of organizations and their products--how it can drive both business and technology. We can learn to simplify without sacrificing comfort and meaning, and we can achieve the balance described in Law 10. This law, which Maeda calls "The One," tells us: "Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful."
头三章还行,后面的就有些多余了。用大量亲身经历感觉确实令人向往但不能作为经典流传。亮点在于字体和版式设计,可供毕业论文参考!
评分SIMPLICITY makes GOOD FEELING
评分一本小书。while great art makes you wonder, great design makes things clear.
评分man-made rules
评分这本书真的很普通诶,居然评分这么高。
The Laws of Simplicity 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书