The art of invention
Subtitle: the creative process of discovery and design
By: Steven J. Paley
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781616142230
Subjects: Engineering; Inventions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: PART I. THE PROCESS OF INVENTION; title: Chapter 1. The Paper Clip and the Problem; title: What Makes a Great Idea Great?; title: The History of the Paper Clip; title: What's the Problem?; title: Is It the Right Problem?; title: Reframing the Problem; title: The Evolving Invention; title: Invention in Context; title: Chapter 2. The Hidden Obvious; title: The Destination; title: Being Confidently Naive; title: The Vision and the Visionary; title: Needfinding and Paradigms; title: Seeing the Hidden Obvious; title: The Vision Refined; title: Chapter 3. Creativity and the Brain; title: The Creative Mind; title: Feeding the Brain; title: Listening to Your Subconscious; title: Thinking with the Gut; title: Your Inner Senses; title: Working Ideas, Percolation, and Not Falling in Love; title: Action versus Thought: The Importance of Doing; title: Chapter 4. The Process of Invention; title: The Flash of Inspiration; title: The Resonance of an Idea; title: Sources of Innovation; title: Applications of Life Experience; title: Making the Familiar New; title: Applying Physical Principles; title: Accidental and Chance Observations; title: Learning from Nature; title: The Processes of Invention; title: PART II. DESIGN AND INVENTION; title: Chapter 5. Simplicity; title: Profound Simplicity; title: The Simple and the Complex; title: Zero Mass Design; title: Chapter 6. Elegance; title: The Many Facets of Elegance; title: Ingenious Simplicity: The Most from the Least; title: Core Inventions: From Screws to Microprocessors; title: Adaptive Inventions: The Elegance of Self-Regulation; title: Smart Inventions: Inventions That Change with Change; title: Characteristics of Elegance; title: -A Summary; title: Chapter 7. Robustness; title: Strength; title: Redundancy; title: Simplicity; title: Self-Healing; title: Managed Failure; title: PART III. MAKING IT HAPPEN; title: Chapter 8. Problem Solving and Iteration; title: A Systems Approach: Connect the Big Pieces First; title: KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid; title: Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3; title: What You Couldn't See from There, You Can See from Here; title: Attacking from the Bottom; title: Inventing while You Sleep; title: Arbitrate and Iterate; title: Limiting the Scope; title: Stopping; title: Putting It All Together; title: Anticipating the Unanticipated; title: Documentation; title: Summary; title: Chapter 9. The Business of Invention; title: Inventing as an Employee; title: Selling Your Inventions; title: Entrepreneurship: Starting Your Own Company; title: Patents; title: The Business of Invention; title: Chapter 10. The Art of Invention; title: The Unexplored: Hard Work, Fear, and Fantasy; title: Experience and Invention; title: The Art of Getting It Wrong; title: The Hidden Obvious Revisited; title: Serendipity; title: The Staircase of Creativity; title: The Pleasure of the Problem; title: The Inventor's Tool Kit; title: Making It Real; title: The Art and the Science; title: The Future Is Yours to Create.