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Software Development's Evolution towards Product Design
An anonymous reader writes: "The Lost Garden site has an excellent post on software development's evolution into product design. He starts with the first attempts at software design (for yourself or a colleague), and brings the conversation forward to modern design settings." From the article: "At the dawn of software history, programmers wrote software for other programmers. This was a golden era. Life was so simple. The programmers understood their own technical needs quite intimately and were able to produce software that served those needs. The act of software development was a closed circuit. A programmer could sit in a corner and write code that he wanted. By default it also happened to apply to other programmers."
Randomly throwing elements into software from the ground up rarely works well; everyone knows that early design is important for the software to be easy to use. In fact, intelligent design saves people from thinking about the software creation process at all, since the intelligent designer keeps the underlying processes of the software hidden from the user. Put your faith in a good intelligent designer and you can simply use the software and remain blissfully ignorant of how the software actually works.
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