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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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Reflections on Representations   ◾     285  
© 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
16.4.13 Viscosity
e whiteboard is highly exible, and therefore exhibits low viscosity, at least when it is
sparsely populated. Marks are accessible, easily changed, and exible, and the designers
routinely made swi small changes by wiping o a mark with a nger and then revising
the representation. Annotations and small changes can be added at low cost, at least until
the clarity is impaired and the whiteboard must be rewritten. Making a systemic change,
on the other hand (e.g., changing the color coding, or adding a new category of informa-
tion), could require altering each instance in turn, a form of repetition viscosity. Making
changes that require more boa ...
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ISBN: 9781466501096