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ArchiveFebruary 2017

Applying the design principle of “white space” to code

By Alexandru Bolboaca
In Design
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I’m very interested in applying general design principles to software design. I am convinced that software design is just design applied to a specific material: code. Since design as a discipline is thousands of years old (the pyramids were designed) while software as we know it today is only a few decades old, I find it obvious that there’s a lot to learn from it. Part of my...

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I am a designer who happens to use code

By Alexandru Bolboaca
In Design
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There are many ways to look at programming. Some people do it to make a living. Others want to see things working fast and hack it away. Others believe in building a profession from programming and thus seek practices and submit themselves to challenges that expand their views. It’s very easy to pass judgement on some of these attitudes. I will not do that.  People need to live, to support...

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A new home for merging ideas about design

It is my strong belief that software design can learn a lot from other design disciplines. I wrote blog posts, a book and did talks on this topic, and it was time to group them all together. These ideas have now a new home: https://codedesigner.eu. My plan is to add more blog posts there, and to involve other people doing work in this area.