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Chapter 11
Ideas, Subjects, and Cycles as
Lenses for Understanding the
Software Design Process*
Alex Baker and André van der Hoek
University of California, Irvine
11.1 INTRODUCTION
As designers work to understand a problem and solve it, they generate many ideas. As the
design process progresses, these ideas are weighed and compared to one another, and some
notion of good and bad ideas is developed. Eventually some ideas are used to compose a
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Reprinted from Design Studies 31 (6), Baker, A. and van der Hoek, A., Ideas, subjects, and cycles as lenses for understand-
ing the soware design process, 590–613, Copy ...