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Subject
Design
ISBN
9780201362985
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Design of Design : Essays from a Computer Scientist
Item Height
1in
Author
Frederick Brooks Jr.
Item Length
14.9in
Publisher
Addison Wesley Professional
Item Width
8.3in
Item Weight
22.7 Oz
Number of Pages
448 Pages

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Effective design is at the heart of everything from software development to engineering to architecture. But what do we really know about the design process? What leads to effective, elegant designs - and what doesn't? In The Design of Design , the legendary Fred Brooks takes on these questions - and does for design what his classic best-seller The Mythical Man-Month did for project management. In a series of essays reminiscent of the approach he took in The Mythical Man-Month , Brooks illuminates hidden issues that designers face in every discipline, and uncovers processes and patterns most likely to lead to excellence. In his first major book in more than three decades, Brooks addresses the design process as it has evolved today -- including new issues and opportunities that accompany team-based and distributed design of complex systems. Drawing on the experiences and intuitions of dozens of exceptional designers, Brooks argues convincingly that better outcomes now require bolder design decisions. Brooks shares new important insights about constraints, budgets, design empiricism, aesthetics and style, tools, and more - including two powerful essays on what makes designers great, and where great designers come from. The book concludes with six case study "trips" through design spaces ranging from beach houses to IBM's Operating System/360 - the project that made Brooks famous some four decades ago.

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Publisher
Addison Wesley Professional
ISBN-10
0201362988
ISBN-13
9780201362985
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Author
Frederick Brooks Jr.
Publication Name
Design of Design : Essays from a Computer Scientist
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
448 Pages

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Item Length
14.9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
8.3in
Item Weight
22.7 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ta174b752 2010
Table of Content
Preface ix Part I: Models of Designing 1 Chapter 1: The Design Question 3 Chapter 2: How Engineers Think of Design-The Rational Model 13 Chapter 3: What's Wrong with This Model? 21 Chapter 4: Requirements, Sin, and Contracts 39 Chapter 5: What Are Better Design Process Models? 51 Part II: Collaboration and Telecollaboration 61 Chapter 6: Collaboration in Design 63 Chapter 7: Telecollaboration 89 Part III: Design Perspectives 103 Chapter 8: Rationalism versus Empiricism in Design 105 Chapter 9: User Models-Better Wrong than Vague 113 Chapter 10: Inches, Ounces, Bits, Dollars-The Budgeted Resource 119 Chapter 11: Constraints Are Friends 127 Chapter 12: Esthetics and Style in Technical Design 139 Chapter 13: Exemplars in Design 153 Chapter 14: How Expert Designers Go Wrong 167 Chapter 15: The Divorce of Design 175 Chapter 16: Representing Designs' Trajectories and Rationales 185 Part IV: A Computer Scientist's Dream System for Designing Houses 201 Chapter 17: A Computer Scientist's Dream System for Designing Houses-Mind to Machine 203 Chapter 18: A Computer Scientist's Dream System for Designing Houses-Machine to Mind 219 Part V: Great Designers 229 Chapter 19: Great Designs Come from Great Designers 231 Chapter 20: Where Do Great Designers Come From? 243 Part VI: Trips through Design Spaces: Case Studies 257 Chapter 21: Case Study: Beach House "View/360" 259 Chapter 22: Case Study: House Wing Addition 279 Chapter 23: Case Study: Kitchen Remodeling 297 Chapter 24: Case Study: System/360 Architecture 313 Chapter 25: Case Study: IBM Operating System/360 331 Chapter 26: Case Study: Book Design of Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution 347 Chapter 27: Case Study: A Joint Computer Center Organization: Triangle Universities Computation Center 355 Chapter 28: Recommended Reading 367 Acknowledgments 371 Bibliography 375 People Index 393 Subject Index 401
Copyright Date
2010
Topic
General, Software Development & Engineering / Systems Analysis & Design
Dewey Decimal
005.1
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Design, Computers

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  • by river_city_girl
    Apr 18, 2023

    Pleasantly educational especially in early chapters

    Classic Frederick Brooks Jr. Texts are clear and convincing. Discussion of how design is done was interesting and challenged my assumptions without questioning my intelligence. Well worth the time to read. That said, the chapters/essays were a bit short. And the book wandered into areas of design that were detailed, complex, and unfamiliar to me, and thus far from convincing or compelling.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: second.sale

  • by 1oldcodger
    Aug 10, 2023

    Make the design process consciously deliberate

    I'm using it to organize and guide my design process of a small special processor

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: betterworldbooks

  • by capsocrates
    Sep 07, 2011

    The Design of Design by Brooks is a fascinating read and I loved it!

    I bought this as a textbook for a Systems Analysis class, but it looked so interesting that I read the first 11 chapters this summer before I even got to school. The Design of Design doesn't feel like a typical textbook at all, and Frederick Brooks makes every subject he writes on very interesting and relevant. I can't wait to read more of this book and get to apply what I've read in it.

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