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re: The Blind Men & An Elephant

Adrian K — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:50:16 GMT

I completely agree with your "view" :)

A related problem I have seen is where people defining a system focus on the process and not what's actually needed: "the purpose of the design phase is to produce the design document". But it isn't - the real purpose is to produce the design.

re: Software Design versus Architecture

microlau — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:14:23 GMT

Architects are also concerned about the following:

- Build

- Deployment

- Environment

- Requirements (in case any of them violate any of their 'terrain')

re: Software Design versus Architecture

icelava — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:11:30 GMT

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However, building architects will be less concern over the color of the door or windows within an apartment unit. That would be the role of the interior designer; In our case the software designer.

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Correct, the architect defines the "big blocks". The designer defines the medium-to-small blocks.

re: Software Design versus Architecture

Ho Yik Joon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:04:41 GMT

Quite true. Building architects are very concerned with the attractiveness of the building as a whole e.g. shape, color of the entire building. The analogy to sofware field would be the User Interface i.e. Usability aspect of the entire software which software architects are concerned about too.

However, building architects will be less concern over the color of the door or windows within an apartment unit. That would be the role of the interior designer; In our case the software designer.

I think building architects have to at least ensure that their artistic architecture comply with basic civil engineering principle. :-)

re: Software Design versus Architecture

icelava — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:39:55 GMT

Actually, architects are very concerned with colour, shape, and size. Architecture very much has an artistic aspect to it. While they do have such training (and should apply these knowledge), what you described are the primary job of civil engineers; they have to ensure architects do not go overboard with their grandoise and visionary and extravagant art, and defy the laws of physics and geology. Some really design like they don't live on planet Earth.

re: Why do we need architecture for software? We are not building a skyscrapper ..

icelava — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:25:28 GMT

so as long as it's not up to the astronomical level, and still grounded in reality ;-)