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Antifragile Design

Kevin Clark
July 23, 2015

Antifragile Design

Kevin Clark

July 23, 2015
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  3. ADJECTIVE (of an object) easily broken or damaged.
    fragile
    ˈfrajel,ˈfraˌjil
    • flimsy or insubstantial; easily destroyed.
    • (of a person) not strong or sturdy; delicate and vulnerable.

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  4. fragile
    Anti

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  5. Constraints
    help you focus
    LESSON Nº 1

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  6. There’s an infinity
    of potential solutions
    Constraints help you narrow them down

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  7. Constraints give

    our problems shape

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  12. But constraints limit
    my creativity!

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  13. Songs
    — Have to rhyme
    — Have to be under 5 mins in length
    — Have a specific structure

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  14. Design
    in the open
    LESSON Nº 2

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  15. Ship fast and iterate

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  16. Ship fast and iterate
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  18. Involve the whole
    team in your process

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  19. Design isn’t “magic”,
    just hard work.

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  20. It’s uncomfortable…
    at first.

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  21. You want to wait until it’s perfect

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  22. You want to wait until it
    Except it’s never perfect

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  23. You want to wait until it
    Except it
    So you’re never done

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  24. You want to wait until it
    Except it
    So you
    And you never share it

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  25. Share something small
    every day

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  26. Get all the feedback,
    decide what to make
    of it later

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  27. Embrace
    uncertainty
    LESSON Nº 3

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  28. Your users are
    different from you

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  32. Don’t avoid complexity,
    manage it.

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  34. The goal is to make the
    complex understandable by
    clarifying it, not simplifying it

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  36. Constraints help you focus
    LET’S RECAP
    Design in the open
    Embrace chaos
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  38. THANK YOU

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