Complexity and Simplicity
Emergence
Reading
This week's reading was about the concept of emergence, it's meaning, history, characteristics, and how to engage it into the future. My favorite sentence from this week's reading was "Emergence involves also paying attention to what is happening—the stranger arriving with different cultural assumptions that ripple through the organization or community."(Holman, 2020). This sentence explains how us as designers will have to work with emergence in order to satisfy the needs and wants of the target market as well as fitting with the environment around us. Additionally, emergence will be an important point in developing futuristic designs as it "is a product of interactions among diverse entities". The evolution of human technology will depend on how designers learn and use emergence in finding real life solutions.
Lecture
During this week's lecture, we got introduced to the idea of how complex systems, emergence and interdependent are connected. Where complex systems have many parts that emerged and created interdependent components. Furthermore, simplicity and complexity were discussed in relation to "less is more" and "less is a bore". In my opinion, even thought I find simplicity to be needed and important for functional design, I think complexity to be more expressive, yet, both of these traits are essential in design
Bibliography
Anon, 2018. Taken by storms. The Wall Street Journal. Available at: https://www.wsj.com/articles/taken-by-storms-1526057728 [Accessed October 11, 2021].
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Avella, G., 2017. Simplicity vs. complexity in video games. Medium. Available at: https://medium.com/@AcavellaGaming/simplicity-vs-complexity-in-video-games-511c346e09cc [Accessed October 11, 2021].
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Peggy Holman (2020). What is Emergence? [online] Available at: https://moodle.didi.ac.ae/pluginfile.php/11217/mod_resource/content/1/What%20Is%20Emergence.pdf
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