Informatics 121
Software Design I
Lecture 3
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Today’s lecture
• Defining design
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Defining design
• Decision making, in the face of uncertainty, with high penalties for
error
• To choose the things we use shall look as they do
• A creative activity—it involves bringing into being something new
and useful that has not existed previously
• Relating product with situation to give satisfaction
• The imaginative jump from present facts to future possibilities
• To form a plan or scheme of, to arrange or conceive in the mind, …
for later execution
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Defining design
• To initiate change in man-made things
• To plan or intend for a purpose
• To work out a solution in one’s mind
• The transition from possible solutions to a specific one
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Three themes
1. Design focuses on identifying a novel envisioned future
2. Design involves deliberate decision-making and planning; it
is not simply acting out of impulse
3. The design decisions are consequential: there are
stakeholders who must be satisfied with the result
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Informatics 121 definition
• To decide upon a plan for change in the world that, when
realized, satisfies stakeholders
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Design
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designer
plan
maker
change in the world
audience
experiences
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other stakeholders
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Design fields
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Architecture design
Graphic design
Fashion design
Game design
Chip design
Car design
Urban design
Product design
Interior design
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Design fields
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Architecture design
Graphic design
Fashion design
Game design
Chip design
Car design
Urban design
Product design
Interior design
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Writing
Painting
Sculpting
Music composition
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Design
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designer
plan
maker
change in the world
audience
experiences
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other stakeholders
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Design a luxury airplane
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designer
plan
maker
change in the world
audience
experiences
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Design a library
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plan
maker
change in the world
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Design an award for excellence in advertising
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designer
plan
maker
change in the world
audience
experiences
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Collaboration Laboratory
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other stakeholders
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Design an award for excellence in advertising
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Design an award for excellence in advertising
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Design the ideal classroom seat
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plan
maker
change in the world
audience
experiences
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Design the ideal classroom seat
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Design the ideal classroom seat
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Design fields
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Architecture design
Graphic design
Fashion design
Game design
Chip design
Car design
Urban design
Product design
Interior design
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Collaboration Laboratory
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Writing
Painting
Sculpting
Music composition
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Design fields
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Architecture design
Graphic design
Fashion design
Game design
Chip design
Car design
Urban design
Product design
Interior design
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Collaboration Laboratory
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Writing
Painting
Sculpting
Music composition
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• Software design
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Software design
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designer
plan
maker
change in the world
audience
experiences
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Collaboration Laboratory
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Software design
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software designer
software
compiler
runnable program
users
experiences
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