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What is design? It's where you stand with a food in two worlds—the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes—and you try to bring the two together . . .
—Mitch Kapor, Dr. Dobbs Journal
The Roman architecture critic Vitruvius advanced the notion that well-designed buildings were those which exhibited firmness, commodity, and delight. The same might be said of good software. Firmness: A program should not have any bugs that inhibit its function. Commodity: A program should be suitable for the purposes for which it was intended. Delight: The experience of using the program should be a pleasurable one. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software.
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