First, reduce actual complexity by eliminating unnecessary features and then hiding what you can’t eliminate. Secondly, reduce perceived complexity by minimizing visual noise and reusing elements. And finally, use the blank state to help orient users.

Minimizing complexity in the user interface will help people learn your application more quickly, use it more effectively and be happier all the while. As jazz musician Charles Mingus said, “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”

Here’s the original article: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/07/minimizing-complexity-in-user-interfaces/

Paul Boag’s article on corporate websites posted on Smashing Magazine should be mandatory if you plan to manage a webteam.

Thank you Paul!