# Simplicity in Design: Insights from an Industrial Engineer

DevFeed: [Simplicity in Design: Insights from an Industrial Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/simplicity-in-design-insights-from-an-industrial-engineer-28842.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://una.im/simplicity-in-eng/>)

Published: 2016-12-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Una Kravets](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/una-kravets.md>)

Topics: [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>), [interfaces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/interfaces.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>)

Tags: [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [interface](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interface.md>), [interface-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interface-design.md>), [ux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>)

## AI overview

The author compares web development with industrial control systems through a conversation with their father, an industrial engineer. The article argues that simplicity, intuitive navigation, self-explanatory interfaces, and carefully layered complexity can improve both interface design and industrial code production.

## Source excerpt

My father, an industrial engineer with over 20 years od experience talks about interface design and the important of simplicity in programming.