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Design of Design, The: Essays from a Computer Scientist
- By Frederick P. Brooks
- Published Mar 19, 2010 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
- Copyright 2010
- Dimensions: 6-1/8 X 9-3/16
- Pages: 432
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-201-36298-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-201-36298-5
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Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Models of Designing
Chapter 1: The Design Question
Chapter 2: How Engineers Think of Design–The Rational Model
Chapter 3: What’s Wrong with This Model?
Chapter 4: Requirements, Sin, and Contracts
Chapter 5: What Are Better Design Process Models?
Part II: Collaboration and Telecollaboration
Chapter 6: Collaboration in Design
Chapter 7: Telecollaboration
Part III: Design Aspects/Helpful Hints for Designers
Chapter 8: Rationalism vs. Empiricism in Design
Chapter 9: User Models–Better Wrong than Vague
Chapter 10: The Budgeted Resource
Chapter 11: Constraints are Friends
Chapter 12: Esthetics and Style in Technical Design
Chapter 13: Exemplars in Design
Chapter 14: How Expert Designers Go Wrong
Chapter 15: The Divorce of Design
Chapter 16: Representing Designs’ Trajectories and Rationales
Part IV: A Computer Scientist’s Dream System for the Design of Houses
Chapter 17: A Computer Scientist’s Dream System for House Designing–Mind to Machine
Chapter 18: A Computer Scientist’s Dream System for Designing Houses—Machine to Mind
Part V: Great Designers
Chapter 19: Great Designs Come From Great Designers Not from Great Design Processes
Chapter 20: Where Do Great Designers Come From?
Part VI: Case Studies
Chapter 21: Case Study: Beach House “View/360”
Chapter 22: Case Study: Kitchen Remodeling
Chapter 23: Case Study: House Wing Addition
Chapter 24: Case Study: System/360 Architecture
Chapter 25: Case Study: Operating System/360
Chapter 26: Case Study: Book Design of Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution
Chapter 27: Case Study: A Joint Computation Center Organization: The Triangle Universities Computation Center (TUCC)
Chapter 28: Recommended Reading
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
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