What the book “The Complex Designer” is about

Composition language

Identify correlations

Manage the focus

Fit everything in

Place the accents accurately

Data language

Help to understand and compare numbers

Reveal patterns

Tell stories

Signal to noise ratio

Choosing the best perspective and scale

Reliability, relevance and statistical significance of the data

Interaction language

Describe the states and reactions of components

Simulate user flows

Indication and quick feedback

Consistency, predictability, interface patterns clarity

Verbal language

Describe new phenomena, abstract concepts, any complexity and uncertainty

Tell stories

Clarity

Meme language

Involve associations

Use pre-packaged meanings

Recognition

• set standards and prohibitions, restrict options, put agreements on the record

• get to know each other, take the first steps, play, observe, share experiences and build trust

• avoid difficult, conflicting or unusual situations

• learn to overcome any difficult situations together

• stick strictly to your processes, standards and tools

• share standards and tools, learn from experience and try out new things

• work in closed mode, communicate through account managers, show beautiful results only, so that you can be sure

• work transparently, communicate directly, show results constantly and continuously, even raw and controversial ones

• order is more important than anything else

• order is necessary, but the key thing is to move forward and find new things

• uncertainty is bad, it must be eliminated

• uncertainty is normal, accept it

• mistakes are bad - suppress them, punish for them

• mistakes are inevitable, but it is really bad to be afraid of mistakes

• each team is responsible for their own thing and does not stick their noses in other people’s business

• we are all together responsible for the overall outcome, and each team member is personally responsible for their own tasks

• work quickly, intensively, without extra effort;

• work slowly, thoughtfully, with “extra effort”, unexpected ideas and twists;

• do not leave an open task overnight and uncommitted changes, constantly synchronize with the team;

• drop a task in the middle of the evening so that you can contemplate it overnight and easily get back to work in the morning;

• pull oneself out of a state of flow: “Am I doing something that gets me closer to the outcome?”

• work in the flow, forgetting everything else;

• do what’s planned daily;

• do what you want to do the most today, catch the wave of interest;

• automate the routine;

• not to automate the routine, so that you could achieve excellence in the routine as well;

• enjoy productivity;

• be happy that no one’s nagging, no one’s asking how much is ready;

• to compromise.

• not to compromise.