KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
When designing systems, products, or solutions
Understanding the Rule
The KISS principle states that systems work best when kept simple rather than made complicated. Simplicity should be a key goal in design, and unnecessary complexity should be avoided. Most systems perform better and are more reliable when they're straightforward rather than complex.
What Happens When You Break It
Over-complication leads to increased costs, more bugs and failures, difficult maintenance, poor user adoption, longer development times, and systems that are impossible to understand or modify when needed.
Benefits of Following This Rule
Simple solutions are faster to build, easier to test and debug, more reliable in production, cheaper to maintain, easier for teams to collaborate on, and more user-friendly.