280 ◾ Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work
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albeit with explicit connecting lines or arrows. At one point, the designers redrew the
architecture on another section of the board.
16.4.5 Error-Proneness
e whiteboard has no safeguards against error, and is therefore error-prone. e infor-
mality and the potential for invention and improvisation potentially contribute to
error-proneness, although this can be mitigated if the designer uses the whiteboard in a
disciplined way that introduces safeguards. e organizing principle underpinning the
notations or representations used may be adhered to or compromised. It is the social
discipline—the secondary notation governing how the a ...