design as a search problem is an analogy that resonates with mehttps://www.are.na/block/4517474
Design is not optimization. You don't go from a poor solution to an elegant one by following a gradient of success.
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I see it as constraint satisfaction regularised by a desire for simplicity. This could be approached via search, but not exclusively
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So many famous product are stuck in a local maximum because of that.
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This sounds like an echo of the Popper & Kuhn debate centred around whether science progresses through evolution or revolution In product development, we should occasionally test new approaches & ideas. This is analogous to the simulated annealing method in gradient descent
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Maybe it's a derivative free optimization problem. :)
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So iterative design is a misguided approach?
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you might sometimes
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I feel like evolution did this a lot
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Not a lot of gradient descent in evolution
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