
Software Designers in Action
A Human-Centric Look at Design Work
CRC Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 10. September 2013
Book
Hardback
452 pages
978-1-4665-0109-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 theoretical examinations of the nature of software design and particular design problems, critically assesses the processes and practices that designers follow, presents in-depth accounts of key supporting elements of design, and explores the role of human interaction in software design.
With highly interdisciplinary contributions that together provide a unique perspective on software development, this book helps readers understand how software design is performed today and encourages the current community of researchers to push the field forward.
With highly interdisciplinary contributions that together provide a unique perspective on software development, this book helps readers understand how software design is performed today and encourages the current community of researchers to push the field forward.
Reviews / Votes
"This is an important book for anyone wishing to research or improve the process of collaboratively designing software or other artifacts. It makes it clear how complex the process can be, even for fairly well-posed design problems. It also shows how many ways the process can be executed and analyzed, and how complex the analyses can be. For researchers and process improvers needing to test their ideas on design, it provides detailed case studies that can be used as test cases. And it brings together references on a wide variety of the major studies of software design and design in general." -Barry Boehm, TRW Professor of Software Engineering and Director Emeritus, Center for Software Engineering, University of Southern California "As professional developers of software-intensive systems, we seek to craft artifacts that are useful, yet by their very nature, are also fiercely complex. Beauty and elegance of design are the elements we employ to balance that complexity. This book brilliantly attends to the landscape of how we may best design such systems." -Grady Booch, Fellow, IBM Research "... an important contribution to design research and lays broader foundations for further research for many years to come." -From the Foreword by Nigel Cross, Emeritus Professor of Design Studies, The Open UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bosa Roca
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
100 b/w images
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
952 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4665-0109-6 (9781466501096)
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09/2019
1st Edition
Chapman & Hall/CRC
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E-Book
09/2013
1st Edition
Chapman & Hall/CRC
€86.99
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E-Book
09/2013
1st Edition
Chapman and Hall
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Persons
Andre van der Hoek, Marian Petre
Content
Design in Theory. The Process of Design. Elements of Design. Human Interaction in Design. Appendices. Index.