Software Designers in Action

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Introduction

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   , the study of design in practice has become a major focus

across many dierent disciplines. It is crucial to understand how professionals work,

both with an eye toward developing innovations that help them work better, and with

an eye toward documenting practices that help train new generations. Studying designers

while they work has become a discipline of its own, with established expectations, prac-

tices, and venues for presenting results.

A particularly signicant event took place in 1994, when Cross, Christiaans, and Dorst

organized a workshop (Analysing Design Activ ...