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When to Design for Emergence
- My friend Kasey Klimes wrote a fantastic piece called “
When to Design for Emergence
” on the design dynamics of large-scale software after working on Google Maps.
https://newsletter.rhizomerd.com/p/when-to-design-for-emergence
He points out that our current approach is designed to only solve the most common needs of the most number of users.
Anything b... See morefrom Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers by Maggie Appleton
Alex Dobrenko added
- Design for Emergence is…
* …open-ended and permissionless. Resulting designs are often surprising, something the original designer could have never imagined.
* …context-adabtable. The end-user can integrate their local or contextual knowledge
* …composable. It provides a basic ‘language and grammar’ that’s easy to learn and employ, but can also exte... See morefrom Visualizing Minimalist Design by Thomas Klaffke
Keely Adler added
- “In design for emergence, the designer assumes that the end-user holds relevant knowledge and gives them extensive control over the design. Rather than designing the end result, we design the user’s experience of designing their own end result.
from Visualizing Minimalist Design by Thomas Klaffke
Keely Adler added