Why Innovators Love Constraints

I tried this by setting an artificial constraint of build a CMS interface, no forms allowed when originally building http://createjs.org

This was useful as it forced us to look for approaches outside the traditional CMS space. And as quite a few major CMSs have since adopted the library, I'd call the experiment a successful one.

Here is the original launch post where I talk more about this:

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/introducing_the_midgard_create_use...

While reading this article I was constantly thinking that 'constraints' were a re-framing of goal-setting. It is well known and used in all modern companies, that setting a goal and breaking that goal down into manageable tasks is the optimal way to ensure productivity.