Fire and Ice: Human-centered and Mechanistic Paradigms in Software Design

Fire and Ice: Human-centered and Mechanistic Paradigms in Software Designrek Kelly introduces you to the two principal software design philosophies that are competing in today's marketplace. For each philosophy, the author provides an extensive description of what a software application using the philosophy looks like. He then explains the differences between them. Along the way, you will get a glimpse of what task, function, user, and workflow analyses involve, and what considerations go into the design of software applications.

Derek Kelly, who is retired, spent a dozen years teaching at the university level followed by twenty-five years working mainly as a technical writer in the software development industry. He holds a doctorate from Boston University and lives in Aurora, Colorado. He can be reached via e-mail at andrompyx@aol.com.