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Kent Beck: Software Design is an Exercise in Human Relationships
In the closing keynote at QCon SF, Kent Beck spoke about how software design is an exercise in human relationships, why iterative and incremental development is the most cost effective way to build software, and how the overall cost of a software system is directly related to the cost of coupling and decoupling and the jackpot changes which result in cascaded coupling.
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Sidewalk Labs Launches Machine Learning Tool for Urban Design
Sidewalk Labs recently released Delve, a generative design tool powered by machine learning (ML), which helps developers, architects, and planners design urban neighborhoods. The ML algorithms can generate design options from minimal user input about the space and the goals of the project, while also measuring the impact of each design choice.
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How Artificial Intelligence Impacts Designing Products
Artificial intelligence is changing the way that we interact with technology; eliminating unnecessary interfaces makes interaction with machines more humane, argued Agnieszka Walorska at ACE conference 2019. The expectations towards customer experience have changed, and one factor that is becoming more and more important to this change is machine learning.
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Eric Evans: Domain-Driven Design Even More Relevant Now
Eric Evans, author of Domain-Driven Design, said the concepts in the book he wrote in 2003 are even more relevant now than they were 14 years ago. As the range of tools and technologies has expanded, some lend themselves to the principles of DDD better than others we've had in the past. Evans said, "DDD is not about technology, but is not indifferent about technology."
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Software – Is it "Engineering" Yet?
At the GOTO Amsterdam 2015 conference Mary Shaw talked about progress towards an engineering discipline of software. She explored what it means to have an engineering discipline, how far we have progressed toward having one for software, and what can be the next steps.