Design It!

Chapter 17Activities to Evaluate Design Options

In the evaluate mindset, we critically examine design decisions to determine how well they meet our needs. Our designs don’t need to be perfect, but they do need to be good enough. Our goal is to make sure the architecture satisfices, that it is satisfactory and sufficient. When we’ve found a satisficing solution, then we say it has good fit.

During an evaluation we’ll learn all the ways our architecture is not satisfactory or sufficient. We might learn we don’t understand some nuance about the problem. Or perhaps a design idea that seemed good will turn out to have unacceptable trade-offs, miss ...