Applying the Occam’s razor

Occam’s razor is a principle attributed to the franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory.

We use the Occam’s razor in our web projects. The reason is that the excessive elements in a website may cause users’ errors. We just follow the law of succinctness: “entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”.

Our mantra is to simplify people’s lives through the internet, so the Occam’s razor is the best principle for us. And it’s more elegant than the rude “keep it simple, stupid”.