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Software Designers in Action
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Software Designers in Action

by Marian Petre, Andre Van Der Hoek
September 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
452 pages
17h 21m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 1
Designing Designs, or
Designs on Design
Barbara Tversky
Stanford University/Columbia Teachers College
1.1 STUDYING SOFTWARE DESIGN IN VIVO
In 2009, computer scientists Andre van der Hoek, Alex Baker, and Marian Petre invited
colleagues—some computer scientists, some not, some novices, some veterans—to par-
ticipate in a collaborative research project. e starting point was three sets of videotaped
design sessions in which small teams of experienced designers from three soware com-
panies were asked to design soware to simulate trac ow. e system was not meant to
control trac in the world, but rather ...
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ISBN: 9781466501096