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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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252   ◾     Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work
© 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
busy lane to get into a turning lane on the le side. An1’s response, “I hate to bog down
in that detail,” treats as problematic such details of trac conditions, and is a remark that
garners immediate assent, without delay, from An2. An1 proceeds to construct a turn that,
in the interests of keeping “it moving,” proposes, “what simplifying assumptions could
we make initially,” to obviate the issue. In this case, as in the rst, an assumption marks a
contrast with the world, that is, An2’s “real scenario” (Line 4). But an importantly dier-
ent action is being performed with the idea. An1’s simplifying assumption is employed as
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ISBN: 9781466501096