Embracing Simplicity

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Embracing simplicity by Adam Silver

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What might this look like?

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Obsessed with simplicity

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It’s hard Simple is complicated Simple is simple People We love complicated

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Atul Gawande Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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Ignorance Technology Ineptitude 10-15 years training 4000 procedures, 6000 drugs ? Brakes – set Elevator trim – set Autopilot – disconnected Patient’s name Area of procedure Known allergies

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47% That’s millions of people

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Seduced by complexity

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Contribution Effort in != value out

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Designer A spends an hour of their time making 5 screens because they know they need to design 5 screens. They’re not trying to change the world, they achieve what they set out to do.

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Designer B takes an entire day to make one screen because they are obsessed with moving pixels, but they are stuck. They can’t let go.

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They end up doing less because of their own insecurities about their contribution. They create the same thing over and over, they end up with unfinished design(s) or they go right back to the beginning.

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Designer A understands that there’s no ‘perfect’.

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Designer B believes ‘perfection’ exists, their belief of perfect is jaded by their own inability to understand the solution to the problem. In some cases, they are making a solution for a non existent problem.