Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto

Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth is a list of guidelines that he uses to aid his creative process. Although I'm not a designer, this rules are very cross-disciplinary. As a programmer, there is a actually a large element of creativity because it is still a very young craft, so there is a high degree of chaos involved in most software projects. Here are some of my favorite points in his list:

The title: The title of his list goes along with his points about growth. By declaring the list as "incomplete", he is stating that he allows everything that he does to grow and evolve.

Point 2 says to forget about good. He confesses that growth is not always good, but that should not discourage growth because mistakes must be made in the process as stated in point 34: make mistakes faster.

These couple of points are great views for me personally. Programming is far from a science, and mistakes are an inevitability, even for the best programmers. Programmers have to be prepared to make many mistakes, and as Mau says in point 4 - Love your experiments, we must "find the fun in failure".