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Eric Ries • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Alexander is inspired by how design occurs in the natural world. "Things that are good have a certain kind of structure," he told me. "You can't get that structure except dynamically. Period. In nature you've got continuous very-small-feedback-loop adaptation going on, which is why things get to be harmonious. That's why they have the qualities tha... See more
Tomas Petricek • On architecture, urban planning and software construction
Hypercycle
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Beyond Networks: The Evolution of Living Systems
youtube.com“for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.”4
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Christopher Alexander and the history of design systems
designsystems.com
What does it take to build something so that’s it’s really easy to make comfortable little modifications in a way that once you’ve made them, they feel integral with the nature and structure of what is already there?
Chris Alexander
The most natural implementation of any feature request is additive, attempting to leave all other elements of the design in place and simply inserting one new component: a new button in a UI or a new parameter to a function. As this process is repeated, the simplicity of a system is lost and complexity takes its place. This pattern is often particu... See more