Ninth law - FAILURE
The ninth law is FAILURE – Some things can never be made simple. That is very true that Maeda reminds us that “there’s always an ROF (Return On Failure) when you try to simplify”. But we have to learn from our mistakes. It is true in not only in the effort for defining simplicity but also in our life. It is always good to experiment and fail in order to achieve a better result, in this case is either simplicity or complexity. Like his previous laws have stated that simplicity and complexity need to find its balance. Simplicity has its own beauty; complexity has its own beauty too. As long as it works and provides good solution that we won’t get until we try and fail.
In this law, he revisits his own laws of simplicity and concludes that simplicity itself may fall prey to this law. This is why he concludes with a single law that captures the majority share of meaning from the previous laws.
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