The Simplicity Cycle

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1. THE SIMPLICITY CYCLE
3. TEXT BACKGROUND ▸ I'm obsessed with simplicity ▸ I was burned by complication ▸ Many times
4. TEXT MAP
6. THE AXIS
8. TEXT GOODNESS ▸ Everything that makes a system/product good ▸ What makes a good food? ▸ Tastiness ▸ Presentation ▸ etc
11. TEXT GOODNESS ▸ Everything that makes a system/product good ▸ What makes a good food? ▸ Tastiness ▸ Presentation ▸ etc ▸ What makes a good software? ▸ Features ▸ Reliability ▸ Ease of use ▸ etc
12. COMPLEXITY
14. TEXT COMPLEXITY ▸ Complex: consisting of a lot of interconnected parts
17. THE SIMPLISTIC REGION (AND THE COMPLEXITY SLOPE)
19. THE COMPLEX REGION (AND TWO PATHS)
21. TEXT ▸ We'll go to the upper path if we keep our previous behaviour: adding, creating, and expanding. ▸ At this stage, new additions will actually weigh down the design.
22. THE COMPLICATED REGION
23. TEXT ▸ "Each piece we add introduces new opportunity for breakage. Accumulate enough potential break points and one of them is bound to give away."
25. THE SIMPLE REGION (AND THE SIMPLIFICATION SLOPE)
27. TEXT ▸ "The idea is to prune and pare down the design, reducing it to the essential components." ▸ This is ideal state! ▸ Unfortunately, it's not the finish line
28. THE CYCLE
29. TEXT
30. HOW TO APPLY THE MAP?
31. TEXT ON PROJECT
35. TEXT ON PRODUCT EVOLUTION
36. TEXT ▸ Many more implementations inside the book
37. FURTHER DISCUSSION
38. TEXT SIMPLE VS EASY ▸ Simple != easy ▸ Simple => objective ▸ Easy == familiar => subjective
39. TEXT PROGRAMMING ▸ Programming, essentially, is just data transformation ▸ Conceptually simple ▸ Very *very* hard practically