i think the presentation is far too complex. Somebody writing on
simplicity should know one further rule – Brevity.

And also the email from the author of the presentation:

Hi, Tom.

Glad you enjoyed it – the presentation has been picked up all over the world and I’ve had a wonderful response from readers.

The slides are from a workshop I ran at the Usability Professionals’ Association conference last week. The audience was made up of people who design technology products – hence the focus on technological examples.

What’s been remarkable and pleasing is the number of people from other fields who’ve written to say the advice applies to what they do, too.

I’ll certainly be publishing something in the future discussing how to design novel solutions that are also simple.

Thanks, again. I’ve bookmarked your blog!

Giles

To paraphrase, one way of looking at simplicity is to do pointless things efficiently. A better way might be to do fewer pointless things.

I can think of few approaches to simplicity that start with a 128 page powerpoint presentation.

I can think of a few more that start with a view of the sea.