065: Radical Design with Marian Petre and André van der Hoek
January 31st, 2018 · 1 hr 3 mins
About this Episode
01:39 – Marian’s Superpower: Picking Brains
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter
03:28 – André’s Superpower: Identifying Patterns
04:23 – Design Thinking Within Companies and The Error by Proxy Phenomenon
09:19 – The Notion that Design Has Gone Away
12:18 – Radical vs Normal Design: What drives the need for radical design? When does normal design stop being effective?
19:55 – The Democratization of Software Development
24:45 – Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think
27:45 – The Disconnect Between Academic Research and Actual Practice
29:25 – Why “Decoded”?
32:59 – How People Deal with Systems That Are Too Big
39:19 – Problem Solving and Problem Solving in the Context of Complex Software Systems
44:29 – The Notion of the Toolbox and Breaking Down Big Problems Into Smaller Problems
Reflections:
Coraline: There are two types of gurus.
Rein: The democratization of software development and steering organizations.
Jessica: Studying the bug rather than squashing the bug and experts are in the room twice.
Jamey: Designers saying that, “My job IS hard!” and being kind to themselves.
André and Marian: Having these conversations and interacting with people in this industry.
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