348 ◾ Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work
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from, the design brief. Here are two examples of exchanges. Extract 20.1 is from early on in
the session and Extract 20.2 is from about halfway through the session. Joe describes the
soware (design) and Carla switches to summarizing the requirements before describing
part of the design and then returning to the requirements.
EXTRACT 20.1 Seamlessly Moving between Requirements and Design
[0:08:01–0:08:55]
Joe: there’s a kinda drawing area here which kinda doubles as the kinda
Carla: uhuh
Joe: simulation
Carla: uhuh
Joe: of that part when they’re actually running it now I don’t know if there’d be two
modes an editing mode and a + simulati ...