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Bringing Design to Software - Ch. 1 Kapor

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The most important social evolution within the computing professions would be to create a role for the software designer as a champion of the user experience.... What is design? ... It’s where you stand with a foot in two worlds—the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes—and you try to bring the two together. Mitchell Kapor was one of the first people in the microcomputer industry to identify his work as designing software. When he began work on Lotus 1-2-3 in the early 1980s, he took on the task of designing the interactions, but he wasn’t the programmer. He worked closely with a skilled programmer, Jonathan Sachs, interactively developing the design at all levels of detail—from the broad architecture to the structured organization of the command menus and the naming of the menu items. He recounts the story of being asked by his son what he did for a living, and of being unable to come up with a good answer—he wasn't a programmer, but he was developing programs

Bringing Design to Software - Ch. 1 Kapor Bringing Design to Software © Addison-Wesley, 1996 1 Mitchell Kapor A Software Design Manifesto The most important social evolution within the computing professions would be to create a role for the software designer as a champion of the user experience.... What is design? ... It’s where you stand with a foot in two worlds—the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes—and you try to bring the two together. Mitchell Kapor was one of the first people in the microcomputer industry to identify his work as designing

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