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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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© 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Chapter 15
Designing Assumptions
Ben Matthews
The University of Queensland
15.1 INTRODUCTION
Design theorists have diered widely on whether design is, in essence, a form of some
other activity. Candidates for the “essence” of design have included problem solving,
problem dening, creating t, negotiation, selection, generation, and decision making,
among others. “Foundations” for design practice have been proposed from the arts and
cras, as well as the natural, technical, and social sciences (Buchanan 1992). ere are
also those who reject the idea that there is, or needs to be, an “essence” to design at a
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ISBN: 9781466501096