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What makes an expert software designer? It is more than experience or innate ability. Expert software designers have specific habits, learned practices, and observed principles that they apply deliberately during their design work. This book offers sixty-six insights, distilled from years of studying experts at work, that capture what successful software designers actually do to create great software. The book presents these insights in a series of two-page illustrated spreads, with the principle and a short explanatory text on one page, and a drawing on the facing page. For example, Experts generate alternatives is illustrated by the same few balloons turned into a set of very different balloon animals. The text is engaging and accessible; the drawings are thought-provoking and often playful.Organized into such categories as Experts reflect, Experts are t afraid, and Experts break the rules, the insights range from Experts prefer simple solutions to Experts see error as opportunity. Readers learn that Experts involve the user ; Experts take inspiration from wherever they can ; Experts design throughout the creation of software ; and Experts draw the problem as much as they draw the solution. One habit for an aspiring expert software designer to develop would be to read and reread this entertaining but essential little book. The insights described offer a guide for the vice or a reference for the veteran -- in software design or any design profession.A companion web site provides an antated bibliography that compiles key underpinning literature, the opportunity to suggest additional insights, and more.

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PublisherMIT Press Ltd

ISBN-100262035189

ISBN-139780262035187

eBay Product ID (ePID)226919503

Product Key Features

Number of Pages184 Pages

Publication NameSoftware Design Decoded : 66 Ways Experts Think

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

SubjectComputing: Professional & Programming

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaComputers

AuthorAndre Van Der Hoek, Marian Petre

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.1 Oz

Item Length6.4 in

Item Width5.6 in

Height156mm

Width137mm

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Date of Publication06/10/2016

Illustrator(s)Yen Quach

Place of PublicationCambridge, Mass.

Spine11mm

Series TitleSoftware Design Decoded

Country of PublicationUnited States

GenreComputing: Professional & Programming

Author BiographyMarian Petre is Professor of Computing at the Open University. Andre van der Hoek is Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Yen Quach is a freelance illustrator.

Content Note66 B&W Illus.

ImprintMIT Press