Software Designers in Action
eBook - PDF

Software Designers in Action

A Human-Centric Look at Design Work

  1. 452 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Software Designers in Action

A Human-Centric Look at Design Work

About this book

Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work examines how developers actually perform software design in their day-to-day work. The book offers a comprehensive look at early software design, exploring the work of professional designers from a range of different viewpoints. Divided into four sections, it discusses various theore

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Yes, you can access Software Designers in Action by Marian Petre, Andre Van Der Hoek, Marian Petre,Andre Van Der Hoek in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & Human-Computer Interaction. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Contributors
  6. Introduction
  7. Section I. Design in Theory
  8. Chapter 1. Designing Designs, or Designs on Design
  9. Chapter 2. Representing Structure in a Software System Design
  10. Chapter 3. Role of Design Spaces in Guiding a Software Design
  11. Chapter 4. Designing Programs as Representations
  12. Chapter 5. Studying Software Design Cognition
  13. Chapter 6. Does Professional Work Need to Be Studied in a Natural Setting
  14. Section II. The Process of Design
  15. Chapter 7. Empirical Studies of Software Design Process
  16. Chapter 8. Accessing Decision Making in Software Design
  17. Chapter 9. What Makes Software Design Effective?
  18. Chapter 10. Identifying and Analyzing Software Design Activities
  19. Chapter 11. Ideas, Subjects, and Cycles as Lenses for Understanding the Software Design Process
  20. Chapter 12. The Cobbler’s Children
  21. Section III. Elements of Design
  22. Chapter 13. The Blind Men and the Elephant, or the Race of the Hobbyhorses
  23. Chapter 14. Design Requirements, Epistemic Uncertainty, and Solution Development Strategies in Software Design
  24. Chapter 15. Designing Assumptions
  25. Chapter 16. Reflections on Representations
  26. Chapter 17. Concern Development in Software Design Discussions
  27. Chapter 18. The Craft of Design Conversation
  28. Chapter 19. Going Meta
  29. Chapter 20. Accommodating Disagreement
  30. Chapter 21. Application of Network Analysis to Conversations of Professional Software Designers
  31. Chapter 22. Conjectures on How Designers Interact with Representations in the Early Stages of Software Design
  32. Chapter 23. Postscript
  33. Appendix I. Design Prompt
  34. Appendix II. SPSD 2010 Original List of Workshop Participants
  35. Back Cover