UX-driven Software Design

By Dino Esposito
To write software that lives up to expectations, you need a better way to learn about business processes, domains, and craft applications. This course explores a methodology that puts UX at the foundation of the entire design process.
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Rating
(59)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Mar 31, 2017
Duration
3h 30m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
The Perverse Mechanics of Software Design
Introduction 3m A Popular Example of Legacy Code 4m Stop Modeling Start Mirroring 4m A Popular Example of Software Disaster 6m The Big Ball of Mud 7m
Domain Model vs. Big Design Up Front
Introduction 3m The 'Big Design Up Front' Approach 4m Domain Modeling 5m Splitting the Domain Model 7m
UXDD Core Principles and Practices
Introduction 2m Foundation of UXDD 6m Power to the Wireframes 6m Creating and Approving Wireframes 8m Architectural Spinoffs of UXDD 5m
Acknowledgment of Requirements
Introduction 1m Right Software from Wrong Requirements 4m Task-oriented Analysis of Requirements 5m Requirements Survival Guide 6m Event Storming 7m
User Tasks, Screens, and Commands
Introduction 1m From UX to CQRS 4m Command and Query Stacks 5m CQRS Demo - Part 1 7m CQRS Demo - Part 2 8m From CRUD to CQRS 6m
CQRS Frequently Asked Questions
Introduction 2m Q&A on CQRS Implementation Details 8m Q&A on the Benefits of CQRS 5m
Events as the Data Source
Introduction 2m Pros and Cons of Using Events 6m Historical CRUD 6m Towards a Message-based Architecture 6m Message-based Business Logic - Demo 8m Event Sourcing 8m Event Sourcing Related Technologies 6m
Event Sourcing Frequently Asked Questions
Introduction 2m Q&A on Event Sourcing Implementation Details 8m Q&A on the Benefits of Event Sourcing 6m
UX-driven Design Wrap-up
Introduction 3m Summary of UXDD 5m ROI of UXDD 4m
Description
Course info
Rating
(59)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Mar 31, 2017
Duration
3h 30m
Description

This course's stance on software design is that starting from the ideal UX leads to a task-oriented analysis and top-down design of the solution. Not surprisingly, this is the exact opposite of the approach that has been taken for decades and that now is often giving more pain than gain. In this course, UX-driven Software Design, you'll learn a new way to design software. First, you'll discover the evidence of what makes software development an unpredictable science. Next, you'll explore how to turn requirements into visual artifacts for customers. Then, you'll cover abstract visual artifacts to input and view models. Finally, you'll learn how to use those models rather than domain and data to drive design and development. By the end of this course, you'll be familiar with a top-down methodology for building most cost-effective software.

About the author
Dino Esposito
About the author

Author of many popular books that helped the professional growth of thousands of .NET developers, Dino serves as the CTO of Crionet and focuses on web and mobile solutions for sport events. He’s also a JetBrains technical evangelist and member of the team that manages WURFL.

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Course Overview
Hi everyone, my name is Dino Esposito, and welcome to my course, UX-driven Software Design. When not in training or consulting I am the CTO at Crionet, where we build products in the domain of professional sports, particularly tennis. Everyone in the software industry makes jokes about the ever-changing of requirements, constantly underestimated, well, I'm no exception, except that I don't much like these jokes and thought that there had to be a better way to approach a software development. So in this course, we are going to get the dominant evidence of what makes software development an unpredictable science, turn requirements into visual artifacts for customers, abstract visual artifacts into input and view models, and then use those models, greater than, domain, and data models, to drive design and development. This course will make you familiar with a top down methodology for building more cost effective software because you deliver the right thing right the first time. Well, sort of. The course targets primarily architects and developers, but also talks to project managers and the generic stakeholders of software projects. The course primarily compliments a modern software architecture, domain models, CQRS, and event sourcing. I hope you'll want to join me on this journey to discover a new effective way to design software with the UX-driven Software Design course, here at Pluralsight.

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