"Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; "

"every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front "

"footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you’re optimizing. "

Fred Brooks, author of The Design of Design

So with that in mind, what is the scarcest resource when designing clothes or skins in SL?

Time

i hear that!

hmmm good question. does "lack of appropriate tools" count? We spend so much energy compensating for the inefficient system SL has in place.

that's what came to mind, too.

i agree with time! to design, to learn. to experiment...

with something like skins, I would say customization is the scarcest, and we spend lots of time creating options to provide some

though multilayer tattoos changes that equation

caer: yes, my attention span is a limited resource for sure!

In my case, it's talent.

As a SL sculptural artist, my scarcest resource is usually number of prims, which is specified by most galleries or show places.

Occasionally it is land area allowed as well. A typical call for entries will be 10 meters of land and 50 prims.