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When to Design for Emergence
If I look at things that have turned out well in my life—my relationship, some of my essays, my current career—the "design process" has followed the same pattern. It has been what Christopher Alexander called an "unfolding."
If I look at things that have not turned out as well—my education, the books I've written and hidden on a hard drive in our at... See more
If I look at things that have not turned out as well—my education, the books I've written and hidden on a hard drive in our at... See more
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Emergence is one of the best concepts I have learned for discussing this wow, this wonder. “Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.”2
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Designers embrace change. They are not attached to a particular outcome, because they are always focused on what will happen next—not what the final result will be.
Bill Burnett • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
The key to building complex systems is not designing complexity from the start. Instead, it’s about building simple systems, allowing them to fail, and iterating on those systems based on what works and what does not work.