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Products are getting more complex: Internal complexity
From the course: Systems Thinking for Product Designers
Products are getting more complex: Internal complexity
- [Presenter] Hello. And welcome to system thinking for product designers. In 1956, Boys' Life Magazine calculated the total parts in a model T, was 1,481. It was a revolutionary product for its time, and was an icon of complexity managed through innovative industrial process design. In 2020 Toyota estimates, a typical car to have around 30,000 parts, 20 times the complexity of the Model T, why, what happened? Every part within a product has some cost, what pressures are overcoming that cost in driving this longterm trend towards increasing complexity? Well, clearly there's additional features in a modern car, some of which require whole systems of parts like climate control. In these instances, the customer or user is willing to bear that additional cost because they value the additional features. But even within existing product features like the door locking system in a car, complexity has consistently increased…