The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist Upplaga 1

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