“Design It!” in a nutshell nunulk Try English LT! for engineers vol.3 

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Design It! 

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What is “design”? 

Design, Composition, and Performance - Rich Hickey 

–Rich Hickey “to prepare the plan for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of” 

About “Design It!” • Part I: Introducing Software Architecture • Part II: Architecture Design Fundamentals • Part III: The Architect’s Toolbox 

What Software Architects Do 

What Software Architects Do What Software Architects Do - Design It! 

–Keeling, Michael. Design It! “They define the problem from an engineering perspective. They divide the software system into implementable chunks, but also keep an eye on the big picture to ensure the system still works as a consistent whole. Architects decide trade-offs among quality attributes and manage the inevitable growth of technical debt.” 

–Keeling, Michael. Design It! “They define the problem from an engineering perspective. They divide the software system into implementable chunks, but also keep an eye on the big picture to ensure the system still works as a consistent whole. Architects decide trade-offs among quality attributes and manage the inevitable growth of technical debt.” 

Design Thinking 

4 Principles of Design Thinking 1. Human rule: All design is social in nature. 2. Ambiguity rule: Preserve ambiguity. 3. Redesign rule: All design is redesign. 4. Tangibility rule: Make ideas tangible to facilitate communication 

Architecture Patterns 

Architecture Patterns • Layers Pattern • Pipe-and-Filter Pattern • Publish-Subscribe Pattern • Big Ball of Mud Pattern etc. (10 patterns) 

Layers Pattern Evans, Eric - Domain-Driven Design 

The Architect’s Toolbox 

Activities to Understand the Problem • Choose One Thing • Empathy Map • Interview Stakeholders • Point-of-View Mad Lib etc. (38 activities) 

Choose One Thing “Discuss priorities with stakeholders by presenting them with an extreme choice: if you only get one thing, what will it be?” • faster performance or greater accuracy • cost or time-to-market • usability or security 

Wrap-up The book describes… • What Architect is and do. • What design thinking is. • How to design an architecture • Catalog of architecture patterns • Activities which helps you solve problems … and more