Lean Design and Simplification

Simplification is adding good design and user-friendly features to complexity to make life easier for users.

We desire everything we use daily to be convenient and easy to use, whether it's a technology product, a home appliance, or an office furniture. We prefer not to use anything complex and troublesome. Because the idea of simplifying complexity has started to become a part of our lives, guiding us towards a smarter, leaner, yet higher-quality life.

The concept of 'simplexity,' simplifying complexity, was brought to the agenda by Jeffrey Kluger, an author and senior editor at Time magazine. The essence of this concept is well-designed simplicity, stripped of unnecessary details. If you are looking for ways to differentiate in the eyes of users, you should develop simple-looking yet multifunctional, easy-to-use, lean products. With lean design, you can rid products of details that would tire users.

Lean design in office chairs, office desks, or seating groups in waiting rooms will create both brand appeal and customer loyalty. Users' tendency to use products that are simplified in design yet healthy and comfortable is increasing day by day.

American designer and technologist John Maeda, in his book 'The Laws of Simplicity,' describes ten laws of simplicity that teach us how to achieve more by needing less in business, technology, and design. A few of these laws that we believe are related to lean design are as follows:

- Reduce: The simplest path to simplicity is through reduction. It's necessary to get rid of unnecessary details without losing the essence.

- Organize: Organization makes a system with many components appear less. To create a tidy, non-straining space, simplification is necessary.

- Contrasts: Simplicity and complexity need each other. To achieve lean design, one must understand what complexity is.

Simplicity is about removing the obvious and adding the meaningful. In design, it's necessary to identify and remove the unnecessary and add what is purposeful.

The process of simplification and lean design focuses on preventing excess design for a product group and using as many common parts as possible within that product group. The goal is to use components from previous designs of a product group in the subsequent designs of the same group.

In the lean design approach, any feature of a product that does not benefit the user is clearly a wastage, and avoiding wastage will simplify the product.

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