The award-winning engineer, Air Force lieutenant colonel, and author of F.I.R.E offers a road map for designing winning new products, services, and business models, and shows how to avoid complexity-related pitfalls in the process. With a foreword by design guru Don Norman. Humans make things every day, whether it s composing an e-mail, cooking a meal, or constructing the Mars Rover. While complexity is often necessary in the developmentprocess, unnecessary complexity adds complications. The Simplicity Cycle provides the ...
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The award-winning engineer, Air Force lieutenant colonel, and author of F.I.R.E offers a road map for designing winning new products, services, and business models, and shows how to avoid complexity-related pitfalls in the process. With a foreword by design guru Don Norman. Humans make things every day, whether it s composing an e-mail, cooking a meal, or constructing the Mars Rover. While complexity is often necessary in the developmentprocess, unnecessary complexity adds complications. The Simplicity Cycle provides the secret to striking the proper balance. Dan Ward shines a light on how complexity affects the things we make for good or ill, taking us on a journey through the process of making things, with a particular focus on identifying and avoiding complexity-related pitfalls. The standard development process involves increasing complexity to improve theoutcome, Ward explains. The problem comes when the complexity starts getting in theway but often we don t know where that point is until we pass it. He suggests a numberof techniques for identifying the problem and fixing it, including how to overcomeseveral types of wrongheaded thinking such as the idea that complexity and quality arethe same. In clear, compelling language, and using his trademark mix of examples fromresearch, personal experience, and pop culture, Ward offers a universal concept, visuallydescribed with a single, evolving diagram. Ideal for business leaders and technologists, The Simplicity Cycle is helpful for anyonelooking to simplify and improve everything we do, whether we work in an office, athome, or at the Pentagon."
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