To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski
Publisher: Vintage

As Henry Petroski writes in To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, we learn more from our failures than our successes. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835. A good book on this (parallel) kind of process: To Engineer is Human, the role of Failure in Successful Design; Petroski, Henry. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. (ISBN: 0897331532) Although its more than thirty years old I think it is still a landmark book on how and why we design. Technological factors-those related to the role, use and economics, have been much more decisive than the literary profile in the book and the furniture that fits. I bought a used copy of To Engineer Is Human : The Role of Failure in Successful Design sometime last year & it finally migrated to the top of Mount ToBeRead. A quarter century ago, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski demonstrated rather convincingly that failure is indispensable to successful design. An older uderstanding creativity is in this book: “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petroski.