Code Read 6 - Mitch Kapor’s Design Manifesto
This installment of Code Reads takes a huge leap from the world of academia and the historic foundations of our discipline to something more recent: Mitch Kapor’s Software Design Manifesto. In this passionate essay, Mitch Kapor extols the virtues of designing software with the user experience in mind, and advocates developing a profession of software design.
Today the phrase “software design” (like “architecture”) has come to have so many definitions that Humpty Dumpty would grinning from ear to ear. So before we can comment on what Mitch Kapor had to say, we need to pay some attention to what he actually did say, and not what we read with our modern vocabulary.
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