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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Maxim Soloviev ma...@deast.info wrote:
I would say that software design is process of making organic software.
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Maxim Soloviev
Software Design
Making software which both works and which you want to use.
Because there's a lot of software out there which technically works
but which is a pain to actually use, and when that's the case, we
usually fault the design.
-- Jim
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I always thought that software design was more the programming side of
things: from architecture down to the algorithm level; not what we do.
It should (ideally, if humans are to be using it) include work that we
do, but there is a load more that is nothing to do with us, unless
we're specifically
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Russell Wilson russ.wil...@gmail.comwrote:
*So I’m interested… in 10 words or less, what is software design to you?*
Enter more than one if you like (as seperate comments).
Hi Russell,
Here's mine: Making digital things that work for people.
I'm surprised
In 9 words- Code written to help users accomplish their goal(s) better.
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Russell, I think there are several issues w/ the question.
1) software design is a double noun where both nouns can't be
defined any further and add value. When reading it people know what
software is, and understand that design in its most simple use as
plan is really enough.
2) many people are
And every day we have to use our creativity, smarts and talent to
design the best tools for people to use.
- No, sorry. The design of the tool is not a software designer's
cocnern.
It seems there is some misconception about software design going on
here. Software design isn't concerned with the
Software design does involve the user interface as well as underlying
code (alogithms that drive the system). There have been surveys of the
percentage of code devoted to the user interface and UI code for many
modern products (ignoring infrastructure perhaps) is quite high, often
over 50%. Many
Making the complex seemless and simple.
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On Jul 5, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Chauncey Wilson wrote:
So, software design deals both with underlying code and user
interface code - sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly. The
underlying software architecture can have a profound effect on
interaction design.
Agreed.
However, there's been
Seems limiting though...computer when software powers a number of systems
that have computer components but are not known by that label, cellular
phones for example. Switch device for computer and I'm sold.
marianne
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Jared's additions make my definition so much better!
I specified software for 2 reasons:
1) that's how the question was worded to me
2) I don't feel qualified to define design beyond software design
As for my choice - we aren't designing Ferrari's... we are designing tools
for people to
buy
1. Yet
2. another
3. exercise
4. in
5. design
6. semantics
7. from
8. here
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10. eternity
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Hello Russell,
Just for fun here is my 10-word describing software design.
Creating
quality
code
that
drives
useful
usable
engaging
user
interfaces
Chauncey
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Russell Wilsonruss.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
Jared's additions make my definition so much better!
I
On Jul 4, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Russell Wilson wrote:
Jared's additions make my definition so much better!
I specified software for 2 reasons:
1) that's how the question was worded to me
2) I don't feel qualified to define design beyond software design
As for my choice - we aren't designing
Wait, wasn't that 'Experience Design' (or something)? I'm confused :)
Taking Chauncey's entry (minus the poetic linefeeds), Creating quality
code that drives useful usable engaging user interfaces, and tightening it
a bit, why not just say, Creating great experiences for our customers and
Jared,
I currently lead the design of network performance mgt software applications
at my company. I have also designed countless applications in the past that
have nothing to do with network perf mgt. And I have designed several
websites for small businesses.
But what does that have to do with
On Jul 3, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Russell Wilson wrote:
At the end of a recent interview, the candidate asked me “What is
software
design to you?” I can probably come up with a thousand different
answers
but the one that popped into my mind immediately that day was
“*software
design is making
While it certainly is interesting to share snapshots of our individual
vantage points, I doubt it makes me a better interaction designer.
I'd much rather be tutored by the many masters on our list, but that's hard
when we're spread across different time zones.
One of my colleagues recently began
Do you think what you do is exactly the same as what an automotive designer
does?
I certainly hope not. Jared's not a designer. ;)
Software design, despite that I call occasionally call myself a software
designer for its conversation-killing effects, is the art of designing
systems. User
Make it for people ( than for computer).
On 7/4/09, Russell Wilson russ.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
At the end of a recent interview, the candidate asked me “What is software
design to you?” I can probably come up with a thousand different answers
but the one that popped into my mind immediately
On Jul 4, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Russell Wilson wrote:
I currently lead the design of network performance mgt software
applications at my company. I have also designed countless
applications in the past that have nothing to do with network perf
mgt. And I have designed several websites for
Therefore, Marc's answer of arranging code to perform a function on a
computer is the best answer I've seen so far, but my sense is that it
wasn't what you were looking for.
But it was! I'm just interested in what people's answers are to the
question - no restrictions.
I do think there are
...making the ordinary extraordinary seems very generic to me, whereas
software design seems fairly specific. (I hang out, because of my son's
profession, with a lot of magicians and special effects artists these days.
Those guys think they've cornered the market on 'making the ordinary
At the end of a recent interview, the candidate asked me “What is software
design to you?” I can probably come up with a thousand different answers
but the one that popped into my mind immediately that day was “*software
design is making the ordinary extraordinary*.”
Okay, so maybe it won’t get
arranging code to perform a function on a computer
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Russell Wilson russ.wil...@gmail.comwrote:
At the end of a recent interview, the candidate asked me “What is software
design to you?” I can probably come up with a thousand different answers
but the one that
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