Simplicity and Elegance

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

- Antoine de Saint Exupery

Simplicity and elegance are achieved by

• Reducing the design to its essence
• Regularizing elements of the design
• Combining elements for maximum leverage

Avoid clutter and visual noise

• Data prisons
• Chartjunk
• Background that becomes foreground

	Heading 1	Heading 2
Row Label 1	If you put things in data prisons,	Yet if you use spaces to separate,
Row Label 2	they become hard to read	then the information
Row Label 3	because the information fights with the boundaries	becomes much more readable

		Heading 1		Heading 2
Row Label 1		If you put things in data prisons,		Yet if you use spaces to separate,
Row Label 2		they become hard to read		then the information
Row Label 3		because the information fights with the boundaries		becomes much more readable

Avoid excessive detail and embellishment