
They care about being able to take that person’s output and make it useful to their own lives. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).It was Albert Einstein who said “If you can’t explain it, you don’t understand it well enough.” Though it is often mis-reported as being “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it well enough.” What Einstein was driving at was a particular application of “keep it simple, stupid”.įrom scientific concepts to products the end-user doesn’t care how clever the creator or designer of something is. Misra (2004), "Global IT Outsourcing: Metrics for Success of All Parties", Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications, volume 6 issue 3, page 21. ↑ "Kiss principle definition by MONASH Marketing Dictionary".Other step of the development process, follow the KISS

↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Clarence Leonard (Kelly) Johnson 1910-1990: A Biographical Memoir (PDF),īy Ben R.Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, Psychology Press, 2007, p.384. ↑ The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang, Eric Partridge,.Stroop, Chicago Daily Tribune, p.43, 4 December 1960.

Navy "Project KISS" of 1960, headed by Rear Admiral
#KISS METHOD SOFTWARE#
The acronym has been used by many in the United States Air Force and the field of software development.


Hence, the 'stupid' refers to the relationship between the way things break and the sophistication available to fix them. The principle is best exemplified by the story of Johnson handing a team of design engineers a handful of tools, with the challenge that the jet aircraft they were designing must be repairable by an average mechanic in the field under combat conditions with only these tools. There was no implicit meaning that an engineer was stupid just the opposite. While popular usage has translated it for decades as, 'Keep it simple, stupid', Johnson translated it as, 'Keep it simple stupid' (no comma), and this reading is still used by many authors. The acronym was reportedly coined by Kelly Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works (creators of the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird spy planes, among many others).
