How to make new things
On Kevin Kelly’s (writer of “NetEconomy” and journalist of “Wired“) blog I found an interesting article about how to make new things. Paul Graham, a diligent engineer sums up the process of creating new things in one sentence:
Find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
A task easy to cope with, isn’t it?
The core idea behind this concept seems to be to get as fast as you can to your first prototype without loading it with twinkling and shimmering stuff which distracts you from focusing on your initial plan – creating a new thing.
That the process is not as easy as it seems at the beginning describes Graham here
I think we will print Graham’s statement and pin it on our office’s wall.
Find Kevin Kelly’s entry here
