Comments on: Occam’s Razor: A Great Principle for Designers

By: Aniruddha Kadam

Aniruddha Kadam — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:51:57 +0000

A very thought provoking article. Surely is the power of simple design far effective and powerful as opposed to flashy thingamajigs and complex architectures.
*Thumbs up* for the same

By: dentist wirral

dentist wirral — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:56:38 +0000

When I employed designer to build my first website I wanted as many features as possible on the main page. Somebody pointed out that but it was too late. When I built my second website I had different approach and things are much better now.

By: web design bury

web design bury — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:47:03 +0000

Very good post. Simplicity in navigation is one of the most important factors of a good website!

By: Evan K. Stone | InteractiveLogic

Evan K. Stone | InteractiveLogic — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:11:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing this great principle! Much appreciated!

By: Gunisigi Balaban

Gunisigi Balaban — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:34:45 +0000

I can’t agree more..

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:15:25 +0000

Here’s my understanding of it.
There are different ways of spelling that name (kind of like Koran vs Qu’ran)–and “Occam” is more simple than “Ockham.” Using the razor principle, it was natural to go with that spelling.

By: JohnONolan

JohnONolan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:01:26 +0000

Purely out of interest: Why is it called Occam’s Razor, if his name was William Ockham? Very interesting!

By: Web Design Nottingham

Web Design Nottingham — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:09:06 +0000

I agree with “less is better”

Clean and simple is of 2010

By: jono253

jono253 — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:39:28 +0000

I read somewhere once that its easy to make a simple thing complicated, but true skill lies in making a complicated thing simple. I think there are a lot of clients that are afraid to leave information out incase the message doesn’t hit home, it takes guts as well as skill to make a minimalistic design.

By: Jarkko Sibenberg

Jarkko Sibenberg — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:27:47 +0000

Good post and good comments as well.

I feel uneasy if I paste a piece of code I don’t understand myself. I always need to go through it and try to figure out which command is doing what and why. It’s the only way to learn use it properly when needed.