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softwarestudio conceptual design: why?
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ratings
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adobe acrobat pro
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cropping in photoshop
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adobe lightroom
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charm & style
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skin deep?
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Clippy2003-2008 RIP
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Lightroom architecture diagram removed due to copyright restrictions. See Troy Gaul's presentation for reference image.
code user’s model interface
conceptual model
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putting it another way... “make your abstractions robust”
but which abstractions? 9
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weak concepts strong concepts
hard to use intuitive, predictable
a mess to maintain decoupling & localization
unreliable & buggy more dependable
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standard (good) practice
thinking & sketching simulating features
normal design practice copying good ideas
evaluating products user feedback
discarding failed designs “refactoring”
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non-standard (better) practice
being explicit focusing: what are the concepts?
relating: how are they related to each other?analyzing: what properties do they have?
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