Quote Originally Posted by wm View Post
The following extracts from FM 5.0 point oput what I find to be the fatal flaw in the "Design" construct.

The first paragraph (3.26) says that design helps one figure out what problem one is supposed to solve. That is, the design frames the problem. But the second paragraph (3-36) says that the problem frames the design. Unless "design" is being equivocally in these two paragraphs, this seems to say that design aids one to understand the problem by understanding the problem.
Or, maybe I'm just as dense as Hacksaw.
Without trying to either defend or attack said statement
Riddle me this


Plan to build a house

< make it a steel house
-no nevermind make it out of bamboo
< and build it in a jungle next to a waterfall

Seems to me sometimes a problem can very well define direct the design-

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