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Software Designers in Action
book

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
Content preview from Software Designers in Action
6   ◾     Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work
© 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
1.4.3 Gestures
Gestures serve some of the same ends as diagrams. Like diagrams, they externalize and
express thought using space and actions in space to convey concepts and relations and
actions that are literally or metaphorically spatial. Unlike diagrams, they are eeting. But
more than diagrams, they can convey actions, behavior, and function as well as structure.
Problem solvers alone in a room gesture; their gestures correspond spatially to the prob-
lems that they are trying to solve. Remarkably, their gestures are instrumental to ...
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ISBN: 9781466501096