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- Simplicity | The Essence of Software1 savers
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- Repetition Compulsion {Discipline} - Madhavan Prasanna1 savers
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For any creative pursuit, this ability to notice more deeply is what distinguishes good from great. This specific pursuit of what feels beautiful gives rise to a form of attention that starts to reveal the infinite depth of the world. It surfaces nuances you hadn’t seen before even though nothing about your actual senses has changed. You begin to see wider and deeper.
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhileGall’s formulation is particularly good because it doesn’t deny that complexity is inevitable in all real systems. It just reminds us that having a complicated problem is no excuse for designing a complicated solution.
Simplicity | The Essence of SoftwareA complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
Simplicity | The Essence of SoftwareDon’t invest too much in ideation activities. Save most of your effort (and your best designers) for revising your design.
How great design happens | The Essence of SoftwareWhat makes a design great is almost never a single novelty arising from a momentary insight, but rather an elegant alignment and uniformity that results from an accumulation of many small steps.
How great design happens | The Essence of SoftwareThe beauty of acceleration isn't found in outcomes or retrospection. Those are artifacts for observers, not participants. The beauty is in motion itself.
Repetition Compulsion {Discipline} - Madhavan Prasanna