Darjeelink - Alexis Perrier

Antoine de Saint Exupery and the KISS Principle

I just found this amazing quote by Antoine de Saint Exupery that sums up the essence of the KISS principle, “Keep It Simple Stupid”. The Kiss principle is at the root of successful and easy to use gizmos, gadgets and web applications such as the Flip Video or Twitter.
The Keep it Simple approach is also what drives the design of the Qameha application, we have been working on. The idea being to enable any user simply to start using the application right away, without any training, just by figuring out himself or herself how to do things. In just the same way people use Twitter or Facebook spontaneously.

Anyway here is the Quote :

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away

In French, the quote drops the reference to the designer :

Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n’y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n’y a plus rien à retrancher

Enough said !

Tags: Antoine de St Exupery, Kiss, Qameha, web design