{"id":4005,"date":"2018-03-20T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T07:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2018-03-15T15:59:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T10:29:33","slug":"keep-it-simple-stupid-kiss-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/20\/keep-it-simple-stupid-kiss-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Definition<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Keep It Simple Stupid&#8221; or its acronym KISS is a design principle first noted by the US Navy in the 1960&#8217;s. The emphasis is on stating that a large variety of systems tend to work best when the procedure is kept simple, rather than overly complicated. A simplicity in design will greatly benefit in the product being more relatable and accessible for the end users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a usability principle for Product Design that has two other variants : &#8220;Keep it short and simple&#8221; and &#8220;Keep it simple and straightforward&#8221; , in the cases of when the word &#8216;stupid&#8217; is deemed highly sensitive and troubling to some. The central message\/objective remains the same: To deliver the simplest possible outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Further Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0&#8220;Moderating Usability Tests: Principles and Practice for Interacting&#8221; (book), by\u00a0Beth A. Loring and Joseph S. Dumas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition &#8220;Keep It Simple Stupid&#8221; or its acronym KISS is a design principle first noted by the US Navy in the 1960&#8217;s. The emphasis is on stating that a large variety of systems tend to work best when the procedure is kept simple, rather than overly complicated. A simplicity in design will greatly benefit in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[683,680,105,18,677,678,681,682,679],"class_list":["post-4005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glossary","tag-central","tag-emphasis","tag-glossary","tag-innoroo","tag-kiss","tag-simple","tag-simplicity","tag-straightforward","tag-stupid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Keep-It-Simple-StupidKISS-1.png?fit=3125%2C1709&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-12B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4040,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}