Overengineering
Designing a product that is needlessly complicated / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Overengineering (or over-engineering)[1] is the act of designing a product or providing a solution to a problem that is complicated in a way that provides no value or could have been designed to be simpler.[2]
It is generally criticized in terms of value engineering as wasteful of resources such as materials, time and money. NASA listed excessive features as one of the top 10 risks of failure for development projects,[3] and Mercedes-Benz developed and removed 600 non-essential features from their cars due to malfunctions, lack of usability and customer complaints.[4]
As a design philosophy, it is the opposite of the minimalist ethos of "less is more" (or: āworse is betterā) and a disobedience of the KISS principle.