[IxDA Discuss] Simplicity is Not Understood

[Esteban Barahona]

hmmm.... Consistency.

I concur 100%. Money is overated.

2007/1/18, Chris Whelan <ccwhela at yahoo.com>:
>
> I don't believe elegant design is an unplanned
> outcome.
>
> If you put a skilled chef in an adequate kitchen with
> high-quality foods and reasonable time to prepare,
> more often than not you're going to get an elegant
> meal, no?  Sure, this chef might burn the soup once in
> a while, but wouldn't you consistently expect high
> quality results?
>
> If you hire a skilled designer, give him/her the time
> and resources, why wouldn't you expect great things?
>
> It's the selling products/making money that introduces
> the wild cards here, I think.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Mark Schraad <mschraad at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > So what would the objectives and tactics be to
> > design elegance. What I think I am getting at, is
> > that those are words describing the artifact or
> > action after the fact as ane valuation... can you
> > really target that reliably, or is it a try and see
> > - if it matches the criteria, type of process?
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, January 18, 2007, at 04:36PM, "Jim
> > Drew" <cfmdesigns at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > >>From: Mark Schraad <mschraad at mac.com>
> > >>
> > >>Thinking out loud... can one actually design for
> > elegance? What strategy might a designer use to do
> > so? It seems to me that elegance, not unlike the
> > grace of a dancer, is an outcome of another sort of
> > regiment. Do dancers practice grace... or is in
> > strength training and repatition that they aquire
> > grace? Is it not the fundamentals that enable a
> > designer to create elegant designs?
> > >
> > >Elegance (and grace) doesn't come automatically.
> > It has to be a goal, or the tasks performed won't
> > lead there; they will lead to something else (which
> > may also be valued).  And then you have to struggle
> > and fight to retrofit to get to(ward) elegance.  (Or
> > grace.)
> > >
> > >(I teach and choreograph country-western dancing.
> > There are a lot of competent dancers who at best
> > emulate grace in their style and technique.)
> > >
> > >-- Jim
> > >
> >
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