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

Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design. There is an interesting book titled To Engineer Is Human, subtitled The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Small Talk Big Results: Chit Chat Your Way to Success . To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. As Petroski, in another nice little book on the subject argues, to engineer is human. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history, is an expert in the implications of failure for engineering. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. The subtitle of his book is the role failure in successful design. 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. Henry Petroski, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, says that in his field, failure is almost a prerequisite for success, because only by reaching a point of failure can you define the limits of possibility. The activities, after all, are human activities, so they reflect the possible range of actions, of conditions under which people are able to function, and the constraints of real people. Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing. I would recommend reading “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design” and “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petronius, an accomplished author and civil engineer. A good book on this (parallel) kind of process: To Engineer is Human, the role of Failure in Successful Design; Petroski, Henry. People all over the world learn to drive quite successfully with roughly the same configuration of controls. A few years before Henry Petroski penned the title "To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design", I was curious and brave enough to take power tools to my own guitars. Why are you starving when you might be eating? Human-Centered Design has become such a dominant theme in design that it is now accepted by interface and application designers automatically, without thought, let alone criticism.