Design decision
A design decision is a deliberate choice that resolves a problem concerning a software system’s structure, behavior, implementation, or user experience.
Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions
A design decision is a chosen resolution to a software design problem or alternative.
- How it is used
- Uses collaborative modeling to make software and architecture decisions explicit within a technical, social, and business context.
- How deep it goes
- Distinguishes routine implementation changes from decisions that reshape architecture, and examines ambiguity, tradeoffs, and group consequences.
- Examples
- Uses BigScreen’s reservation system, EventStorming, ticket purchasing, and the “Anytime, Anywhere” campaign.
- What you can do after
- Apply collaborative modeling to identify alternatives, weigh tradeoffs, and communicate explicit decisions.
Design for Developers
A deliberate choice that shapes a product's visual, structural, interactive, or experiential characteristics.
- How it is used
- Guides research, design planning, collaboration, and implementation choices that shape the user experience.
- How deep it goes
- Explains rationale, research inputs, trade-offs, and wireframe workflow, but stops short of detailed implementation technique.
- Examples
- Uses research planning, a luxury travel homepage wireframe, content hierarchy, search prominence, imagery, and animation performance as examples.
- What you can do after
- Apply research, vocabulary, wireframes, and technical judgment to make and explain better product decisions.
Related concepts
- collaborative discovery and modelingused by · Collaborative discovery and modeling is a group technique in which stakeholders jointly create and refine representations to establish shared understanding of a domain or system.
- researchused by · Research is the systematic investigation of a subject through gathering and evaluating information or evidence to develop understanding or answer questions.
- architecture decision recordused by · An architecture decision record is a document that captures an architectural decision, its context, rationale, and consequences.
- pro-con-fix listused by · A pro-con-fix list is a decision-making technique that records an option’s advantages, disadvantages, and possible remedies for its disadvantages.
- implicit architectureproduces · Implicit architecture is a software architecture whose significant design decisions emerge without explicit, shared, or deliberate design and governance.
These guides are generated from the text of Manning books by Manning's knowledge graph and link to the sections they draw on. The full books are available on liveBook and at manning.com.