Designing a product that is needlessly complicated
1st prototypes of the eROCKIT indirectly pedal powered battery e-bike
Overengineering (or over-engineering)[1] is the act of designing a product or providing a solution to a problem that is complicated in a way that provides no value or could have been designed to be simpler.[2]
It is generally criticized in terms of value engineering as wasteful of resources such as materials, time and money. NASA listed excessive features as one of the top 10 risks of failure for development projects,[3] and Mercedes-Benz developed and removed 600 non-essential features from their cars due to malfunctions, lack of usability and customer complaints.[4]
As a design philosophy, it is the opposite of the minimalist ethos of "less is more" (or: “worse is better”) and a disobedience of the KISS principle.
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pair of wire clippers, and when he felt that one of his builders was overengineering a circuit, he would begin snipping out some of the electronics components...
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Groupthink The blind men and the elephant Wisdom of the crowd Tiger team Overengineering Kolbert, Elizabeth (1998-01-26). "Metro Matters; The State Of the State...
fill in the corners. The scientists had originally considered this overengineering a waste of time and money, but Fermi realized that by loading all 2...
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without justification. A case in point was Trump's criticism of the overengineering which led to the Boeing 737 Max crashes and his preference for products...
Nebelwerfer 35. The NbW 40 is one of the better examples of German overengineering since it fired a slightly heavier bomb over twice as far as the NbW...
market. When introduced it was Suzuki's largest displacement machine. Overengineering of the engine led to the bike gaining a reputation for reliability...
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after Marvin Minsky). Arthur Ganson Discard Protocol Jean Tinguely Overengineering Rube Goldberg machine Theo Jansen Trammel of Archimedes Munari, Bruno...
to provide the required oil pressure – can be seen as an example of overengineering, and has led to maintenance failures where the bridge is unable to...
called an outstanding design for its time, it has also been called overengineered, using expensive materials and labour-intensive production methods....
Despite this, the overall design has still been described by some as "overengineered". The Panther was rushed into combat at the Battle of Kursk in the summer...
(25 April 2017). "Juicero teardown reveals the secrets of a wildly overengineered juicer". The Verge. Archived from the original on 3 September 2017....
transistors and few connections. An iterative trial-and-error process and "overengineering" of device size was often necessary to achieve a manufacturable IC...
cause more nuclear fallout because of incomplete fission - due to overengineering the pit (making it heavier to ensure fission occurs at least in part...
invented to achieve loose coupling in multiple dimensions; however, overengineered and mispositioned ESBs can also have the contrary effect and create...
wire clippers, and when he thought that one of his employees was "overengineering" a circuit, he would begin snipping components out until the picture...
amendments followed until very late completion stages. All the buildings had overengineered steel frames with concrete ceilings and masonry infill, based on concrete...
was synchronized only on the top three gears. The Carol was perhaps overengineered: it had a very strong monocoque body, a four-cylinder four-stroke engine...
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