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From YouTube: Thoughts on "Sophisticated Simplicity"
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After participating in the MECC Office Hours discussion earlier this week I spent some time thinking about one of the comments that was brought up about moving towards "sophisticated simplicity." Here are my thoughts on what the tenets of it could be in an effort to further formulate something around it and help shape a path to achieving it.
A
I
wanted
to
just
share
some
quick
thoughts
on
a
term
sophisticated
simplicity,
it's
something
that
in
the
mec
open
office
hours
earlier
this
week,
there
was
some
discussion,
asked
a
question
about
ui
and
how
mac
relates
to
consistency
and
design
and
ux
and
valerie
had
a
great
follow-up
question.
But
out
of
that
came
a
quote
from
sid,
which
was
that
we've
gone
from
phase
one
to
two
naive
simplicity,
to
sophisticated
complexity.
A
We
need
to
go
to
a
level
further
to
sophisticated
simplicity,
and
this
really
struck
a
chord
with
me
and
I've
been
thinking
about
what
that
means
for
the
gitlab
ui,
and
I
just
have
a
few
thoughts.
This
is
totally
just
some
just
kind
of
putting
it
out
there
to
see
if,
if
anything
sticks-
and
I
wanted
to
to
kind
of
think
through
what
are
what
are
the
tenets
of
sophisticated
simplicity.
A
A
If
you,
if
you
look
at
discovery
and
structure
on
their
own,
I
feel
like
you,
you
land
on
simplicity,
so
I
I
have
a
coffee
cup
here.
Let's
see
if
I
can
get
that
on
the
camera,
you
know
minimal
discovery.
There
is
some
structure
here,
there's
not
a
lot
of
capability,
and
so
this
is
a
very
simple
object,
very
simple
form.
A
A
If
you
have
structure
but
capability,
you
end
up
with
a
high
level
of
complexity.
I
have
this.
This
guitar
pod
not
not
railing
on
line
six
or
anything,
but,
as
you
can
see,
there's
a
lot
of
structure
here.
There's
there's
a
lot
of
capabilities,
but
there's
not
a
lot
of
discoverability
and
because
of
that,
it's
extremely
complex.
A
Every
time
I
use
this
pretty
much.
I
have
to
pull
out
the
guide
to
figure
out.
What
am
I
doing
here?
How
does
how
does
this
knob,
when
I
turn
this?
How
does
it
impact
what
I've
saved
or
etc?
There's
a
lot
of
complexity
here,
and
that's
because
there's
there's
structure
and
capability,
but
it's
all
shown
to
you
at
the
same
time.
So
there
is
no
ability
to
discover
and
have
kind
of
channels
of
learning
and
channels
of
aligning
concepts
and
and
creating
those
relationships.
A
You
end
up
with
some
sophisticated
simplicity
and,
as
I
was
thinking
like
of
more
metaphors,
that
might
not
be
ui
related
as
a
one-to-one
like
I.
I
think
I
thought
about
the
old
click
wheel,
ipod,
where
maybe
this
one
will
show
up
better
on
camera.
Maybe
not
there
there's
there's
two
circles
there
there's
a
inner
circle
for
the
button,
there's
an
outer
circle
and
there's
a
screen.
A
I
think
that's
where
that
extra
piece
comes
in
and
we
have
some
content
on
pajamas
about
progressive
disclosure,
which
I
think
is
helpful,
but
really,
I
think,
that's
that's
kind
of
the
gist
of
my
thoughts,
I'm
working
through
this,
but
understanding
what
what
the
tenants
might
be
to
arrive
at
sophisticated
simplicity
and
where,
where
are
we
weighted
more
heavily
at
the
moment
versus?
Where
do
we
want
to
be?
A
And
in
this
it's
when
we
talk
about
iteration,
it's
it's
a
progress
where
some
things
might
start
off,
it's
very
simple,
but
as
capabilities
get
added,
we
need
to
balance
that
discovery
and
figure
out.
How
does
that
happen?
How
does
that
land
in
the
middle,
where
we're
balancing
those
things?
So
those
are
my
thoughts
by
all
means.
Please
provide
reaction.