Minimum Constraint Design (MinCD)

"Minimum constraint design (MinCD) provides only the minimum number of constraints needed to permit the freedoms desired and no other freedoms".
When I was getting know more about the basic notions of minimum constraint design, John Maeda’s book named The Laws of Simplicity occurred to me; especially law 2 “Organize” and law 8 “Trust”. His law 2 says “Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.” Law 8 Trust says “ In simplicity we trust.” I read this book last winter break , as you can see in the title, this book is about 10 laws of simplicity which help make design simple and efficient. I agree with many parts of this book and I could say that efficient simplifying, in other words getting rid of redundancy, is one of the most important keys of MinCD. Organization equals trust.


"Greater stability can be a good reason for going to RedCD".
I can’t stop thinking why there are still so many unnecessary y redundant constraint designs even though they have many disadvantages such as inefficient manufacturing cost, assembly stress, deformations etc.
We tend to add unnecessary parts to our designs. In MinCD, to maximize the design’s effect, each part has high reliability and responsibility and it never shares its portion. So, if one part is broken, the damage overall would be huge. Because of this risk we tend to prefer greater stability over simpler design. I agree we, humans, sometimes have too many worries.


"Absolutely pure MinCD can be achieved, its benefits are dramatic, and the designer’s satisfaction is profound".
I just smiled when I faced this sentence. I think designing with minimum constraints is one of hardest constraints. How come we don’t have high satisfaction when we have done it?