A system becomes elegant when unnecessary decisions disappear.

Elegance is largely the absence of choices you did not need to make. When something works well, you notice that there were no forks, no settings to configure, no moments of hesitation, because the design already answered them. Every decision handed to the user or the operator is a small tax. Removing them is what produces the sense of ease.

Look at something you have built and count the decisions it requires of someone else. Ask which ones you could make for them. Each one you absorb makes the whole thing lighter.