Cheap, Fast & Good

March 6, 2009

in Productivity

When I first started work­ing, a com­pany I was doing a project with had a sim­ple draw­ing tacked on its door for all their clients to see. It looked like this:

Cheap, Fast & Good

I don’t know where the orig­i­nal idea came from, but I’ve car­ried this lit­tle nugget of wis­dom with me ever since. I’m just sur­prised not more peo­ple know of it.

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Nicole March 26, 2009 at 11:36 pm

I went to see a designer speak yesterday and he had the same handout.

It expanded on it a little further though:
Cheap + Fast = low quality
Cheap + Good = long time
Fast + Good = expensive

Makes absolute sense!

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