Heuristics
We all use heuristics (even if we haven’t articulated them to others) to discover, understand, explore, create, modify, or extend complex software systems. Billy Vaughn Koen, in Discussion of the Method: Conducting the Engineer’s Approach to Problem Solving, defines a heuristic as, “anything that provides a plausible aid or direction in the solution of a problem but is in the final analysis unjustified, incapable of justification, and potentially fallible.
– Rebecca Wirfs-Brock –
Design heuristics >>
Heuristics we use to solve a specific problem
Guiding heuristics >>
Heuristics that guide our use of other heuristics (meta-heuristics, if you will)
Value-based heuristics >>
Heuristics that determine our attitude and behavior towards design or the world and the way we work
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