Elegance as Complexity Reduction in Systems Design

Table 3

Average ranking of perceived implementation effectiveness and perceived elegance () on a 7-point Likert scale with 1 = most preferred and 7 = least preferred.

System diagram	Perceived implementation effectiveness ()	Perceived elegance ()
A	4.2	3.9
B	3.8	3.5
C	5.5	5.2
D	5.9	6.4
E	6.5	7.1
F	3.1	3.0
G	2.6	2.7
H	4.3	4.2