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Incredible! Very impressed and extremely helpful! He provides many examples of his own experience and explains everything very well. He gives great information on everything. All the chapters are relevant to his topics and is well put together. I highlight helpful sentences, and with his book, I'm constantly highlighting!
Eloquent and perceptive, Paley presents a complicated topic in an enjoyable manner. This work is especially authoritative as it was written by one who has successfully achieved his goals, and is constantly providing innovative solutions to intricate problems. A good read- Bravo!
This book is more of a collection of/history of fun facts and inventions. As such it can be inspiring when the "inventor" is stuck and ready to give up. If you are looking for a "how to" book, this isn't it. As the author notes, however, a "how to" book for this subject may not really be possible!
Their are many current books on Design and Product Development, as well as a few guides to the Patent and Intellectual Property Process; Steven Paley as Entrepreneur, Inventor, Graduate of the Stanford Product Design Program and former Technical Staff Member of Bell Laboratories gives a complete Heuristic Guide to Thinking and Acting as an Inventor. He describes in detail and from personal experience (while illustrating with extensive case studies such as the invention of the Paper Clip, Velcro, the Xerox Copier, etc.) the process of getting and growing a non-obvious idea and developing a commercially successful invention.
Paley, both a trained Engineer and Product Developer as well as a second-generation independent Innovator and Entrepreneur stresses a structured conscious and sub-conscious Heuristic process of Inventive Problem Solving; in one formulation [page 39] he describes this process as:
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1. Active Awareness
2. Technological Fluency
3. Seeing the Flower from the Seed
4. Desire to Create
5. Courage
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;in another [page 52] he describes the Mental Activities as:
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1. Feeding the brain by accumulating the information that will serve as the building blocks of creativity.
2. Listening to the subconscious as it works with the problem.
3. Using intuition, or thinking with the gut.
4. Evolving an idea using your inner senses.
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He describes Goals and Metrics for Inventions as [page 101]:
1. Simplicity: "Does my design reflect with absolute simplicity the essence of my idea?"
2. Elegance: "Have I solved the problem with the utmost elegance?
and
3. Robustness: "Is my solution robust enough to withstand the unanticipated?"
Paley also describes a Systems-Oriented Problem Solving Process and gives guidelines to the Evolution of An Idea through Iteration. Finally, he gives some essential consideration
to the business process of bringing an invention to market including guidelines for estimating the cost of patent preparation.
This invaluable book is unique in two respects: Paley describes in detail from personal and learned experience the Process of Inventive Thinking and Problem Solving; Paley has successfully learned and performed these processes in the Academic, Corporate and Independent Entrepreneurial Worlds.
Invaluable for the Independent Inventor, Venture Capitalist, Corporate Problem Solver, and Engineers and Designers wherever they live.
--Ira Laefsky, MSE/MBA
IT Researcher and Consultant formerly on the Senior Staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation
This is a book that needed to be written.
The main thesis of the well-written book, "The Art of Invention" is as much about unlearning as it is about learning. Invention is about feeing the mind, breaking down constraints, as it is about the art of inventing, of not going down the road well-traveled.
Paley writes in an engaging and easy to read style about the creative process and about how to get from needs and raw ideas to finished products. It's chock-full of engaging stories.
The book is divided into three sections:creative problem-solving, the embodiment of invention (simplicity, elegance, and robustness) and the practical matters of taking an idea from concept to reality and commercializing invention.
Pal begins by explaining what made the humble paper clip such a great invention.
He starts out with properly defining a problem. No "design a tooth brush for elephants," which is self-limiting, but "Prevent elephants from getting cavities" which better defines the objective and does not limit the possibilities. Faulty problem statements lead to ineffective solutions.
He speaks of the "hidden obvious" and being "confidently naive."
Many times, a novel product can be created by translating from one domain to another. For example, George de Mestral devised "Velcro" by noticing how cockleburs cling to whatever moves past them. He saw that this mechanism (a hooked material and a loosely-woven cloth could temporarily become attached with considerable force.But he also notes that you need perseverance. For Velcro, the time from initial insight to product was ten years.
There are separate chapters each devoted to simplicity, elegance, and robustness.
Another chapter focuses on problem-solving and the importance of the KISS method (Keep It Simple, Stupid).
The last part of the book is devoted to the "business of invention." I would have preferred more detail here.
All in all, it's a valuable, readable, and "must-have" book for the inventor and prospective inventor.
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