form follows function (Louis Sullivan)

 
Understanding industrial design : principles for ux and interaction design, written by Simon King and Kuen Chang, 2016

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The architect Louis Sullivan coined the oft-repeated phrase “form follows function,” although the full context of his statement reveals this as a slight misquote.  He wrote that “Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun,  form ever follows function,  and this is the law.  Where function does not change, form does not change.  The granite rocks, the ever-brooding hills, remain for ages; the lighting lives, comes into shape, and dies, in a twinkling.”38  He goes on to relate this to architecture, but it's striking to note how nature is the root of this inspiration, where beautiful aesthetics are tied together with beautiful purpose and efficiency.  Sometimes the phrase “form follows function” is used to justify a spare aesthetic, but Sullivan was advocating for appropriateness, not minimalism.  Designers of our human-made world should seek to intertwine aesthetics and function in the honest and beautiful way that nature does, where form is both beautiful and purposeful. 
  
     38  Louise H. Sullivan, “The tall office building artistically considered”, Lippincott's magazine (March 1896): 403─409.

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form, function, and production.

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Jonathan Ive puts it, “simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity.  Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object product.”1
     1  Shane Richmod, “Jonathan Ive interview: simplicity isn't simple”, the telegraph, may 23, 2012, http;//bit.ly/1Ip3r8B.
IN other words, simplicity can't be copied because it's specific to the nature and context of the problem.  

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Simplicity is often conflated with minimalism, where the goal is to remove as much as possible.

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Tim Brown has described minimalism as a “reaction to complexity whereas simplicity relies on an understanding of the complex.”2
     2  Tim Brown, “Simple or minimal?” Design thinking, http://designthinking.ideo.com/?p=404.

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simplicity are not universal truths. 
They must be investigated as part of a design process, mined and discovered from within the complexity of a situation. 

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Designers need to discover the essential qualities of a product, and be able to articulate how their solutions address the complexity of a situation.  This ability  to decipher and convey what makes a product simple can help create guardrails around a design, to know what to fight for when the feature creep and change requests come in.  As a product evolves, its simple integrity will only remain if designers can communicate its relevant qualities.  


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