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March 17, 2010
Applying constraints can help your company and your customers in unexpected ways. The default thing we do is ask how we can add something to make it better. Instead we should say, What can we take away to create something new?
Source: Anything Could Happen by Max Chafkin
Labels: Constraints
January 7, 2010
We thrive with the challenges that limitations bring. Clients with limitations know what’s important. Wealthy clients don’t know what’s important because for them, everything is equal. If they want eight fireplaces, they can have them.
Source: Dwell Magazine, Dec/Jan 2010
Labels: Constraints
July 27, 2009
Here is one of the few effective keys to the design problem—the ability of the designer to recognize as many of the constraints as possible—the willingness and enthusiasm for working within these constraints. Constraints of price, of size, of strength, of balance, of surface, of time and so forth.
Via: Working together by David Verba, Adaptive Path
Labels: Constraints
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