Category Archives: Minimalism

Google's simplicity vs Yahoo's complexity

I continued to think about what I wrote in last Wednesday’s post, The Minimalist March to Success, and did some more research on the internet. While doing so, I came across two interesting posts one by Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame, and the other one by Prof. John Maeda, associate director of MIT’s Media

The Minimalist March to Success

In this post I want to focus on what I feel is a recurring pattern adopted by all of today’s successful technology companies, minimalism. Let me take the following companies as an example to support this argument: Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. You’ve all heard about them and most probably you either hate them or love them. With all probability you