Living with Complexity¶
Norman, D. A. (2010). Living with Complexity. MIT Press.
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Primes¶
- Law of Conservation of Complexity
- and parallel forms appear in security ("no free lunch"), in regulation (compliance burden shifts but does not vanish), in education (the effortless lecture is paid for in unseen preparation), and in contracting (incompleteness costs the contract refuses to bear are paid in disputes).
This sourceArgues that complexity is a property of the world that cannot be eliminated, only managed and relocated — that simplifying one part of a system pushes complexity elsewhere (to the user, the designer, or the support context) — generalizing the conservation idea beyond HCI to everyday designed systems.
- and parallel forms appear in security ("no free lunch"), in regulation (compliance burden shifts but does not vanish), in education (the effortless lecture is paid for in unseen preparation), and in contracting (incompleteness costs the contract refuses to bear are paid in disputes).
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