065: Radical Design with Marian Petre and André van der Hoek




Greater Than Code show

Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ReinH"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rein Henrichs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> |</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/jameybash"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jamey Hampton</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="http://twitter.com/coralineada"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:<br> </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mp8/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marian Petre</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><br> </span><a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~andre/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">André van der Hoek</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Join Our Slack Channel!<br> </b><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">Support us via </b><a style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 1.8rem;" href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>01:39</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Marian’s Superpower: Picking Brains</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465018475/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therubyrep-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0465018475&amp;linkId=b4167a63b9987f095980f513ab736f3f"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter</span></a></p> <p><b>03:28 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">André’s Superpower: Identifying Patterns</span></p> <p><b>04:23 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Design Thinking Within Companies and The Error by Proxy Phenomenon</span></p> <p><b>09:19 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– The Notion that Design Has Gone Away</span></p> <p><b>12:18 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Radical vs Normal Design: What drives the need for radical design? When does normal design stop being effective?</span></p> <p><b>19:55 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– The Democratization of Software Development</span></p> <p><b>24:45 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262035189/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therubyrep-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0262035189&amp;linkId=0098e702ceaa5cba3158595a7b2d66b6"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think</span></a></p> <p><b>27:45 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– The Disconnect Between Academic Research and Actual Practice</span></p> <p><b>29:25 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Why “Decoded”?</span></p> <p><b>32:59 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– How People Deal with Systems That Are Too Big</span></p> <p><b>39:19 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Problem Solving and Problem Solving in the Context of Complex Software Systems</span></p> <p><b>44:29 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– The Notion of the Toolbox and Breaking Down Big Problems Into Smaller Problems</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Coraline: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are two types of gurus.</span></p> <p><b>Rein:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The democratization of software development and steering organizations.</span></p> <p><b>Jessica:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Studying the bug rather than squashing the bug and experts are in the room twice.</span></p> <p><b>Jamey: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Designers saying that, “My job IS hard!” and being kind to themselves.</span></p> <p><b>André and Marian:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> H</span></p>