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101 design rules
Musings, ramblings, and principles that I’ve shared with my team and randomly on Twitter. Reminding yourself of the principles that ground you is simply a good practice. Here are mine.
Design is hope made visible.
You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cau
Substitute? Substitute people, components, materials. • Combine? Combine with other functions or things. • Adapt? Adapt functions or visual appearance. • Modify? Modify the size, shape, texture or acoustics. • Put to other use? Other, new, combined uses. • Eliminate? Reduce, simplify, eliminate anything superfluous. • Reverse? Use conversely, inver
... See moreMikael Krogerus • The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking (Fully Revised Edition)
Alternatives may not be given but must be searched for or imagined.
Richard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
The truth is that gnarly challenges are not “solved” with just analysis or by applying preset frameworks. Rather, a coherent strategic response arises through a process of diagnosing the structure of challenges, framing, reframing, chunking down the scope of attention, reference to analogies, and insight. The result is a design rather than a choice
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