Designing Systems and Networks

Sometimes, they just evolve...

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Innovation - Advice and tips on how to build new systems
Open Source - Community-driven design versus proprietary closed methods
Systems Thinking - how systems and networks behave
Usability - You cannot not have an experience, it helps if it is a good one
Value - identifying potential and what it's worth for organisations

Articles

Link	Description
Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art	Article by Mary Jo Foley about the new Microsoft Experimentation Platform (ExP) - April 2008. See also: Microsoft ExP web site
Anatomy of an Ikea product	Why price comes before design - blog post by Crave @ CNET, April 2008
Is the Tipping Point Toast?	Article in FastCompany (Feb 2008) describing how Duncan Watts disproves The Tipping Point. Great example of how we tend to find reasons after the event instead of accepting randomness
The Digital Revolution	Interview with Nicholas Negroponte

Recommended Reading

Linked: How Everything is Connected And What It Means For Everday Life by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Seeing The Forest For The Trees: Applying Systems Thinking by Dennis Sherwood, publ 2002
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity by Jamshid Gharajedaghi, publ 1999
Six Degrees: The Science Of A Connected Age by Duncan J. Watts
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cites and Software by Steven Johnson, publ 2002
Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems by Claudio Ciborra

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