9. Speaking of failure is important to designers. They have to be open to failure in order to succeed. But in addition, I feel that it is important to teach failure as a means rather than an end. In my experience, some professors treat a poor design or failure as if it’s the only opportunity available. As if the single failure is a reflection of incompetence or incapability, and offer no guidance or wisdom to direct the designer from failure to perhaps another failure, but ultimately success. There’s a lot to be said about having faith in people, especially people who are hardworking and dedicated. Failure is essential to success, and though this has been a difficult lesson for me to learn, I feel it has been the most valuable. It may take awhile to achieve success in the beginning but the more one is allowed to fail, the easier success becomes. I really like how he went through the book and discussed how people could look at what he wrote as being incomplete or a failure also.
10. The idea that we might soon have to pay for google to store our data is kind of scary. It seems simpler because we wouldn’t need all these backup devices but more complex in that at least now I know where my information is… it’s inside of this hard drive or that one. But if I was tapping into all of my information through google, the information would just be out there somewhere. So, I guess in that sense it’s more about how complex my relationship with google would become. I’m not really sure if I understood what he was saying correctly, but from what I understand I will have to develop a great deal of trust in google. Openness is risky as he says but also necessary for trust and relationships. The philosophy of “use less, gain more” is one to which I subscribe. And the relationship between creativity and having a sense of urgency is absolutely true in my opinion also. Overall, this has been a good read. He compared a lot of design concepts to everyday life and used metaphors that were easily relatable.
