
404 ◾ Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work
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of programming literature, and it has also been documented in the soware engineering
literature. It featured in the workshop discussion as well, in the context of both individual
design performance and interaction within teams. Acknowledgment was made of abstrac-
tion as a key ability for soware designers.
Irina Solovyova, noting that assumptions and cultural expectations are based on per-
sonal experience, queried: “How big a role do those personal assumptions play in struc-
turing a design problem?” For example, both members of the ...