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Design Strategy and Software Design Effectiveness
January/February 2012 (vol. 29 no. 1)
pp. 51-55
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Antony Tang, Hans van Vliet, "Design Strategy and Software Design Effectiveness," IEEE Software, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 51-55, January/February, 2012.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2011.130,
author = {Antony Tang and Hans van Vliet},
title = {Design Strategy and Software Design Effectiveness},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {29},
number = {1},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2012},
pages = {51-55},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2011.130},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology
Hans van Vliet, VU University Amsterdam
Software design is about a sequence of steps taken to achieve a goal. Designers must plan their approach to carrying out these steps. In studying designers at work, the authors observed breadth- versus depth-first approaches to design-space exploration and problem- versus solution-driven approaches during the actual design. Which approaches and when to use them are important to effective design. The authors suggest four archetypical strategies that designers can choose under different circumstances, thus making design strategy one of the early design decisions.

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Index Terms:
design concepts, software engineering, design tools and techniques
Citation:
Antony Tang, Hans van Vliet, "Design Strategy and Software Design Effectiveness," IEEE Software, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 51-55, Jan.-Feb. 2012, doi:10.1109/MS.2011.130
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