Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure

by John Sharp and Colleen Macklin

How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation.

Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity, false starts, and bad outcomes. Their tool for coping with the many varieties of failure: iteration, the cyclical process of conceptualizing,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026203963X
• ISBN13: 9780262039635
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"