Simplify the World Reduce complex things down to their basic components Give up a little efficiency or optimization if it provides lots of simplicity If you can get away with using tried-and-true technology, do it "Kareta Gijutsu no Suihei Shikou" ("Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology") - Gunpei Yokoi Activity: Pick something complex and reduce it to it's simplest _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Simplify your Work Take detailed notes. Comment your work. Pictures, drawings, and figures are awesome Don't complicate when you don't need to. Often hard to simplify The most elegant solution is often the simplest "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry Simplify others' Work Agree on standards and avoid uniques Use same names, formats, tools, etc that the rest of the industry uses Provide written documentation to everyone that could use it Activity: Build a paper airplane. Fly it. How'd it do? Why? Why'd you design it that way? What would you change? _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Main Project: Draw a simple figure (block diagram, sketch, prototype) of your project. Label parts. Describe below _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________