--- title: What is Simple? | daily.dev description: A personal framework for evaluating simplicity in product design, distilled into 10 actionable criteria. The author argues that simplicity is a conscious,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-simple--zvoyrrp88 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What is Simple? | daily.dev og:description: A personal framework for evaluating simplicity in product design, distilled into 10 actionable criteria. The author argues that simplicity is a conscious,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-simple--zvoyrrp88 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZVOyRRp88.png og:image:alt: What is Simple? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What is Simple? **[Hardik Pandya](https://daily.dev/sources/hvpandya)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal framework for evaluating simplicity in product design, distilled into 10 actionable criteria. The author argues that simplicity is a conscious, ongoing effort in product organizations and offers a checklist covering speed, intuitive flow, predictability, error tolerance, and consistency to assess whether a solution is truly simple. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [SIMPLICITY : One of the Hardest Design Goals](https://daily.dev/posts/simplicity-one-of-the-hardest-design-goals-cvvxqoxhy) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Chaos Before Simplicity](https://daily.dev/posts/chaos-before-simplicity-doqw33gj4) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ux](https://daily.dev/tags/ux), [#product-management](https://daily.dev/tags/product-management) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-simple--zvoyrrp88) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What is Simple?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-simple--zvoyrrp88","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-simple--zvoyrrp88"},"datePublished":"2026-03-08T09:28:39.372Z","dateModified":"2026-03-08T09:30:02.702Z","description":"A personal framework for evaluating simplicity in product design, distilled into 10 actionable criteria. The author argues that simplicity is a conscious,...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/9eea6bdb84f0d50f4e375857a42e2da4?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/9eea6bdb84f0d50f4e375857a42e2da4?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hardik Pandya","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hardik Pandya","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--S2I6DYsa--/f_auto,q_auto/v1772962100/logos/hvpandya","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hvpandya"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-simple--zvoyrrp88","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ux,product-management","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hardik Pandya","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hvpandya"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What is Simple?"}]} ```