What Fury Road Teaches About Constraint-Driven Design

The chase is the plot — remove filler, ship the core loop.

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Fury Road is maximal visually but minimal narratively — every shot serves forward motion. Features should earn screen time the same way.

Constraint as craft: limited dialogue forced visual storytelling. Limited sprint capacity should force clear scope, not bloated meetings.

Relentless feedback: if the user cannot tell what changed after your release, you added chrome not propulsion.

— JV · Dark Heart Labs.