The Essence Of Design

Just some notes for today.

Despite all the methodologies over the years, there are a few key topics that always re-present themselves.

• Iterative Development / Rapid Prototyping

The faster you can take a solution to a problem from just someone’s vague idea to actually testing it against requirements and customer expectations, the faster you can narrow in on a satisfactory system.

• Conceptual Integrity

The more clearly it is that a solution has come from one unified idea or mind, the easier it is to extend and maintain that solution so long as extensions and maintenence don’t interfere with the unified conceptual integrity that allowed their existance in the first place.