Instructional Message Design: The Laws of Simplicity - Trust

For this post, I'd like to focus on Maeda's (2006) law of trust. In his discourse on trust as a law of simplicity, Maeda elaborates on the ways in which predictive textual platforms for example, sometimes require some degree of trust. More than just graphical designs and imagery, videos etc, this law focuses on the information details that various media platforms can predict and insert without you having to type/insert anything - talk about intuition! LOL.

But more than the information, Maeda (2006) states that sending/communicating predictive information inserted by your technology/media device to another person (especially if it's something that you choose not to read before sending it) requires a significant deal of trust. So the question I now ask, do you trust your media device (phone, computer etc) enough to send messages (sometimes automatically) on your behalf?

In essence, what your device is probably trying to do is to make things easier....more efficient...more convenient for you. Upon reviewing this law I immediately remembered the many accounts and passwords my computer logs in automatically....I couldn't explain it via text but I knew exactly what I was trying to say/communicate, and the image I had in my head. So when I saw this graphic below, it hit the nail on the head!😄😅🙌🙌🙌🙌 - it's exactly the image I had in mind when I was re-reading this law....and I use this media feature almost all the time because it just helps to make life #simpler and with my busy schedule, that's just what I need #lawsofsimplicity 😃😁😀😎😅

Even this blogging platform, I learned a while now how to schedule blog posts in advance....so posts can be created and automatically published at a subsequent date as Maeda (2006) acknowledges...and that requires the element of #trust #insimplicitywetrust