Bringing Design to Software

This book shows how to improve the practice of software design, by applying lessons from other areas of design to the creation of software. The goal is to create software that works — really works — in being appropriate and effective for people who live in the world that the software creates.

The book contains essays contributed by prominent software and design professionals, interviews with experts, and profiles of successful projects and products. These elements are woven together to illuminate what design is, to identify the common core of practices in every design field, and to show how software builders can apply these common practices to produce software that is more effective, more appropriate, and more satisfying for users.