Book How Do You Design. Handbook of 130 design process diagrams

Hugh Dubberley and people from the Dubberly Design Office have done a great job in finding and processing theoretical descriptions of the design process. About 130 models made up the content of their book How Do You Design. The book is written for educational purposes and is freely available on the authors website .



Who recently read about the scheme from AIGA and was surprised at the gray colors instead of red - this is from there. On my website I translated and posted a couple of the most interesting schemes (“AIGA” including).
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Under the cut - a few more words about the book.



So, the authors position their work as a reference. After reading everything, I thought that almost all the models described are in one way or another an open scheme of Koberg and Bagnell, 1972, given at the very beginning of the book.



First we break a situation or problem into parts for research (Analysis). Then we compile it based on the understanding of the improvements (Synthesis).

Of course, there are many interesting models, not necessarily related to this. About two of them I wrote before. I also liked the simplest mnemonic rule 4D (define, design, develop, deploy). Apple Jokes



Finally, cyclical models, as a natural continuation of everything previously defined.



It is noteworthy that some models were not published anywhere, and the authors simply began to distribute them, without asking anyone for permission.

The book is now in a "beta" state. If you're interested, you can write to Dubberly, add or correct their work.