Design Rationale: Concepts, Techniques, and Use

by Thomas P. Moran (Editor), John M. Carroll (Editor)

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This book focuses on design in the domain of human-computer interaction. Including a broad sampling of case studies as well as narrower theoretical or empirical studies, it includes consideration of educational uses of design rationale, methods for teaching it in industry, and applications to a variety of software and user interface/application domains. The volume promises to be the largest collection of work on design rationale ever assembled, and thereby to energize the considerable, show more widespread interest in this topic. It will also act as a focus for the existing but scattered work in this domain. show less

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The idea to structure and document the design process, the exploration of the design space, is attractive for many reasons. A number of notations and methods were explored in the 1990s, although it turned out that they were often hard to use in practice. The collection by Moran and Carroll provides a useful overview of the main approaches in the field, how they are used and how they work in larger contexts. About half of the articles were written for the book; the others are reprinted versions of seminal contributions to the field.

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