October 2017
Beginner
360 pages
7h 58m
English
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| Activity 11 | Personify the Architecture |
To personify the architecture means to give it human qualities so that you can explore interactions among elements. Talking about the architecture as if it had human emotions helps us apply our experience with human relationships when designing the architecture. To use this technique, pretend elements in the architecture are people or animals and describe their emotions, motivations, goals, and reactions to stimuli.
Anthropomorphism is a fun, natural way to explore design concepts. Anthropomorphism is also problematic since applying fictional human qualities to a software system is imprecise and ambiguous. We’re making up a story about our software and projecting human-like qualities onto the system! Trading ...