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    Table of Contents:
    Part I: Models of Designing
    1. The Design Question
    2. How Engineers Think of Design–The Rational Model
    3. What’s Wrong with This Model?
    4. Requirements, Sin, and Contracts
    5. What Are Better Design Process Models?
    Part II: Collaboration and Telecollaboration
    1. Collaboration in Design
    2. Telecollaboration
    Part III: Design Perspectives
    1. Rationalism versus Empiricism in Design
    2. User Models–Better Wrong than Vague
    3. Inches, Ounces, Bits, Dollars–The Budgeted Resource
    4. Constraints Are Friends
    5. Esthetics and Style in Technical Design
    6. Exemplars in Design
    7. How Expert Designers Go Wrong
    8. The Divorce of Design
    9. Representing Designs’ Trajectories and Rationales
    Part IV: A Computer Scientist’s Dream System for Designing Houses
    1. A Computer Scientist’s Dream System for Designing Houses–Mind to Machine
    2. A Computer Scientist’s Dream System for Designing Houses–Machine to Mind
    Part V: Great Designers
    1. Great Designs Come from Great Designers
    2. Where Do Great Designers Come From?
    Part VI: Trips through Design Spaces: Case Studies
    1. Case Study: Beach House “View/360”
    2. Case Study: House Wing Addition
    3. Case Study: Kitchen Remodeling
    4. Case Study: System/360 Architecture
    5. Case Study: IBM Operating System/360
    6. Case Study: Book Design of Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution
    7. Case Study: A Joint Computer Center Organization: Triangle Universities Computation Center
    8. Recommended Reading


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  • ISBN-13: 9788131758069
  • Publisher Date: 2010
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Publisher: Pearson
  • Binding: Paperback

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