[IxDA Discuss] Anti Read: Want to build the next “hot” technology? Design it so that it enables complexity.

[Jarod Tang]

agree with your analyze. still doubt if this is enough misleading:

"I asked a very bright colleague, "What are technologies that survive?" He
responded, "Those technologies that enable complexity." [Complexity is the
ability of simple things to be composed to create complex things]"

for e.g. , there complex enough technology such as A.I. , which as we know
is almost waste of research and application energy.

Cheers
-- Jarod

On 9/5/07, Faith Peterson <f.a.peterson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Another take on that post is that it merely states the obvious. He's not
> saying make your app complex. He's talking about combining simpler objects
> into composites.
>
> Examples: apps that make it possible for users to combine simple objects
> like buttons, input boxes, and so forth to create GUIs. Enabling users to
> combine characters and formatting instructions to create documents.
> Enabling
> Web users to combine articles, comments, and open editing to synthesize
> information. Enabling real-world social network members/organizers to
> create
> online networks (a la Ning, although I doubt anyone would hold up Ning as
> an
> example of good design - it's only an example of enabling users to create
> something complex out of simpler things).
>
> Non-software examples - combine images, words, and music to create films.
> Combine ingredients to create food using a food processor, a technology
> that
> changed the way millions of people work in the kitchen. Combine fthe means
> to cook foods that need precisely controlled head sources, those that need
> constant, uniform heat (and make it possible to cook things in this
> category
> that are different sizes, or require different temperatures), those that
> benefit from speed/steam, along with the means to cook all of these at the
> time of one's own choosing and a simple cleanup - do all that and you have
> the modern dual-power, dual-oven self-cleaning range with split oven racks
> and dedicated simmer/high heat burners.
>
> That's not counter-design, it's what makes design necessary.
>
> My .02.
>
> -Faith
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Faith Peterson
> f.a.peterson at gmail.com
> Schaumburg, IL
>
>
> On 9/5/07, Jarod Tang <jarod.tang at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Want to build the next "hot" technology? Design it so that it enables
> > complexity.<
> >
> http://rogercostello.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/want-to-build-the-next-hot-technology-design-it-so-that-it-enables-complexity/
> > >
> > should say, this article is quite a anti experience to read, too
> abstract
> > but you'll see some real example of it. such as lovely vista.
> > fully disagree with it.
> >
> > Cheers
> > -- Jarod
> >
> >
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