Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life

Inspired by John Maeda’s ground-breaking book, The Laws of Simplicity, this series of brief, informative volumes is intended to bring to a broad audience new ideas forunderstanding and improving our lives — ideas that integrate perspectives from the worlds of design, technology, and business.

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Simulation and Its Discontents

by Sherry Turkle

With William J. Clancey, Stefan Helmreich, Yanni Alexander Loukissas and Natasha Myers

ISBN: 9780262546799

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 1, 2022

How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.

The Plenitude

Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff

by Rich Gold

Foreword by John Maeda

ISBN: 9780262543798

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 22, 2021

Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering: how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself.

The Laws of Simplicity

by John Maeda

ISBN: 9780262539470

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 1, 2020

Ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get more.

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How Inclusion Shapes Design

by Kat Holmes

Foreword by John Maeda

ISBN: 9780262539487

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 1, 2020

How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.

The Storm of Creativity

by Kyna Leski

Foreword by John Maeda

ISBN: 9780262539494

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 11, 2020

The stages of the creative process—from “unlearning” to beginning again—seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, and others.