Additions to lesson 6
KISS keep it simple stupiD principle noted by US Navy 1960
Kelly Johnson associated with is, aircraft designs at Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird contributed
Ran SkunkWorks by 14 rules, 5th was "There must be a minimum number of reports required, but important work must be recorded thorougly
Aphorism - concise statement of principle such as minimalism
da Vinci "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
Simplify, then add lightness
Bjarne Stroustrup "Make Simple Tasks Simple!" - C++ is not simple.
SYNTHESIS
Putting things together (opposite of analysis)
Might suddeny occur in designer's mind with definite awareness - DESIGN BY ACCIDENT
Synthesis from a Flash of Insight
Picasso made bicycle seat and handlebars for Bull's Head by welding
Something from randomness, set yourself different from competitor
Example: Lack of Footwear (The World Shoe)
Problem: 1.5B people infected with parasites through contaminated soil... can be prevented with better footwear
Eco-friendly expandable shoes (grofive) covers five diff shoe sizes
Unattended cooking causes house fires
Soln: Retrofittable Smart Stove Sensor (Inirv React sensor with app)
Barriers to synthesis
Knowledge, Perceptual, Emotional, Cultural, Expressive
K - lack of
P - stereotyping elements in soln or problem
E - fear of failure
C - company culture discourages new methods
E - Can not communicate effectively
Knowledge Dimensions
Tacit knowledge vs explicit knowledge
Explicit you can do yourself
Tacit is with advisor
Differences:
Reality to Virtuality Continuum
Augmented Reality
Augmented Virtuality
Virtual Reality
Artificial Intelligence
AI will be very relevant regardless of what you do
Life 3.0 - Technological (?)
Questions about Consciousness
Subjective experience
Really hard to Easy
Easy - theories testable by simulation
Really hard - theories untestable?
Cognitive IoT
cognitive computing with data generated by connected devices and actions they can perform
Virtual Assistants
All devices and platforms
Design by accident
Newton's law of universal gravitation
Lysozyme and benzylpenicillin
Microwave over
post-it
slinky
teflon (PTFE)
Velcro
In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind
3 princes from serenca (?) serendipity for discovery
Picasso constantly thinking about bull head and thought systematic/methological way to make
Solution without a problem
3M's Spencer Silver developed strong adhesive, but accidentally created low tack, resuable, pressure-sensitive adhesive
Minnesota manufacturing and mining
Art Fry thought he could use it as a bookmark
Yellow chosen by accident bc lab next door only had yellow scrap paper
Alfred W Fielding Stevens alumn create 3D plastic wallpaper
Insulation in greenhouses to keep plants warm, not successful
Could be used as packing material
Sealed Air founded based on Bubble Wrap (US3,142,599)
Creativity stimulation techniques
Brainstorming
brainwriting
biologically inspired (What can we learn from nature:
Why-Why diagram, also ask why not
Synectics stimulates thought processes by joining apparently irrelevant elements
Hacksaw cuts wood held still vs wood moves against a table saw
Idea diagrams (concept map, mind map, etc.)
Biomimetics or Biomimicry
Sagradea Familia design inspired from nature
Low Noise Wind Turbine Blades
Siemens DinoTail
Aeroacoustic noise augmentation tools patterned after trailing fringe of an owl's wing during flight
Ask Trigger Questions
What is wrong with current design? What does it fail to do? Why don't we have enough/more?
Can it be misused? etc.
Trigger words categories
Change quantity
Change order
" time
" state
" relative motion or position (tablesaw vs hacksaw)
Morphological analysis
Join preliminary ideas or subsolutions to form total design concepts
Desired functions of table lamp:
Cloud Computing Services
IaaS (infrastructure as a service) - aws, gce, digitocean
PaaS (platfrom as a service) -aws iot google cloud iot heroku
Saas (Sofwater as a serivce) - fitbit, nokia health, particle
Others
AaaS acceleration
BaaS blockchain
CaaS container
Caas content
DaaS data
FaaS function for serverless microservices
MaaS machine
MLaaS machine learning (new!) example aws
SaaS storage
Distributed Ledger Technology blockchain etc
Blockchains and IoT
All services together (airline, gas, shopping, etc)
Fake news, disinformation
Tweeting information without source, don't retweet to potentially spread disinformation
Top-Level Domains
seven original TLDs, now using country codes
original TLDs: .com org net int edu gov mil
country codes first: .us, .uk, .il
Domain Hacks
.ai anguilla
be belgium (youtu.be)
cc Cocos (arduino.cc)
co columbia
cx christmas island of Australian territory people use as Customer eXperience
me montenegro
gl greenland
in india (lnkd.in)
ly libya (bit.ly)
io the british indian ocean territory particle.io
it adafru.it
py paraguay
sh british oversesas territory of saint helena brew.sh
to tonga
Generic TLDs
.xyz .auto .tech
Thingspeak doesn't want api requests fewer than 15 seconds apart
Google sheets default 1000 rows
psutil for system info
gspread google sheets api