Week 9 Origination

Reading Quiz - John Maeda, Laws of Simplicity: Law 8 – Trust

Provide an example of a situation where you have to have trust – in the same vein as the author in his swimming lesson example. What made you trust in this situation and how did you feel?

The trust we place in the delivery and course content of this unit to enable students to collaborate and deliver exhibition pieces at the end of the semester.

Skydiving. Tour bus.

http://lifechoiceexpert.com/trust-in-business-simple-strategies-for-building-trust/ - This website talks about the importance of  building trust in business relationships as one of the most critical factors for success and provides some simple stategies for building trust.

Where in our exhibition do we need to instill trust? Give examples. How are we going to achieve this?

Trust the events management company will meet requirements.

Do the best you can do and put in the effort.

What strategies are used to instill trust? Examples? Where do we need to employ this in this year’s exhibition? How are we going to do this?

Will need to let events company know of our exhibition requirements – equipment needed, space etc.

Promotion of the event is instilling trust to people so they know what to expect at the exhibition.

If you could “undo” any aspect of the preparation for the exhibition to-date, what would you “undo”? With this in mind, what would  you change now in your preparation strategy to overcome having to “undo” anything?

Perhaps would of changed to a less time consuming project. Would of liked to have started work on project earlier. I should of tried to take more time off work.

How are you using the laws in relation to your contribution to the student exhibition? Provide a short explanation and example for each of the laws so far.

Reduce – The simplest way to achieve simplicity I through thoughtful reduction.

Organise – Organisation make a system of many appear fewer

Time – Savings in time feel like simplicity

Learn – Knowledge makes everything simpler

Differences – Simplicity and complexity need each other.

Context – What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.

Emotion – More emotions are better than less.

Trust – In simplicity we trust.

Failure – Some things can never be made simple.

 he One – Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.