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2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

8. Design Elegance and Systems Engineering

verfasst von : Azad M. Madni

Erschienen in: Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The term “elegance” is typically associated with aesthetics. In complex systems design, elegance is what separates the merely functional from the truly engaging. An elegant design is often inspired by a theme that drives its creation. It engages users and encourages exploration. The process of elegant system design is a creative process that focuses on the total experience and exploits systems thinking, probing and questioning, and the use of appropriate analogies and metaphors to simplify system architecture and design by eliminating extraneous constraints that can show up with poor problem framing. This chapter presents the characteristics of elegant design and the attributes of elegant system designers. It stresses the importance of smart questions, metaphors, and analogies in creating elegant designs. It presents a heuristics-enabled elegant design approach along with quantitative and qualitative metrics to users' elegance. It concludes with a call to pursue research in this relatively nascent, high-payoff design thrust.

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Metadaten
Titel
Design Elegance and Systems Engineering
verfasst von
Azad M. Madni
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Buch
Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-62183-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-62184-5

Copyright-Jahr: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62184-5_8

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