[Sigia-l] "Does Good Design Equal Dollars and Sense?"

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"Boniface Lau" wrote:

> The fact that some firms having good design did well financially
> does not mean good design is affordable in all situations.

I don't know about "all" situations, but good design can only be produced by
good people. So if you don't hire good people, the rest just doesn't matter.
Are good people less affordable than bad people? Not if you count in the
cost of bad design. The cost of good design as a process is often only
marginally more expensive (if at all) than bad design, but people who
produce bad design are often cheaper to hire, for organizations not
accustomed to good design.

This rather simple notion is extremely difficult to explain to IT, since
they also think, for example, that the initial purchase price of PC hardware
is what matters the most.

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Ziya

Design is the art of gradually applying constraints
until only one solution remains.