A software architecture manifests the major early design decisions. These early decisions
determine the system's development, deployment and evolution. Thus, making better …

The most distinctive thing about humans is not the thumb, of course. It is design. Unlike any
other animal, we incessantly and dramatically reshape both ourselves and our environment …

Technology should be accessible and inclusive, so designers should learn to consider the
needs of different users. Toward this end, we created the theoretically-grounded CIDER …

More than 40 years after Rittel and Webber published the first articles on the theory of
wicked problems this theory has been applied to a wide range of fields involved in real …

Many decisions have to be made when developing a software system and a successful
outcome depends on how well thought out these decisions were. One way that the decisions …

Rationale research in software development is a challenging area because although there
is no shortage of advocates for its value, there is also no shortage of reasons for why …

The software architecture community is shifting its attention to architectural design decisions
as a key element of architectural knowledge. Although there has been much work dealing …

As management of architectural knowledge becomes vital for improving an organization's
architectural capabilities, support for (semi-) automating this management is required. There …

Software architecture is composed of the design and its set of design decisions. The
documentation of design decisions is important in capturing architectural knowledge, but …

Three decades of creating software to support design rationale showed the author that
rationale processes can promote generation of novel ideas by promoting critical …