In this week’s focus on design as it relates to improving our results, today we’ll continue to consider the relative importance of design elements. Clearly, elements differ in importance. One might say that elements range from structural as the most important to minor details as the least important.
There’s a saying, “Don’t sweat the small stuff; it’s all small stuff,” and perhaps from a grand philosophical perspective, that’s true. However, in the study of results, there’s big, small, medium and all kinds of sizes and shapes of “stuff” to be considered.
Today, please think about a design element that you could remove altogether and / or improve the quality of it in order to make a significant difference in your result. For example, removing or reducing sugar from one’s diet could have a tremendous beneficial impact on health. We’ve all heard that before, but this time, think about it from the perspective of sugar as simply among the design elements that make up your physical results. It’s a variable whose quantity makes a difference in overall health. Try to be dispassionate about it.
Today, let’s choose a design variable to reduce or remove altogether – and then perhaps conduct an experiment for a period of time. You can then assess the wisdom of having that variable included or excluded.