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Year: | 1996 |
Pages: | 350 |
Format: | Softcover |
ISBN: | 0-201-85491-0 |
ACM Order No.: | 704960 |
Available: | yes |
Member Price: | $26.50 |
Nonmembers: | $29.25 |
Bringing Design to Software aims to illuminate and to stimulate the discipline of software design. Collecting insights and experiences from experts in diverse fields, it addresses the growing demand that the software industry produce software that really works software that fits people and situations far better than the examples we see around us today. This book, which features contributions from prominent professionals in computing and design, and from leading researchers and educators, is divided into two parts to deal with two different aspects of the software design context. The first part focuses on the software user, then the second part shifts attention to the designer and to the design process. Throughout the book, connections are drawn between software and other design disciplines, such as architecture, industrial product design and graphic design. The goal is to find the common core that cuts across domains, and to highlight lessons for software designers (both positive and negative) that can be learned from the experience of others.