Growing Your Personal Design Heuristics • Rebecca Wirfs-Brock • YOW! 2019

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2019. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Rebecca Wirfs-Brock - Consultant, Inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design & xDD at Wirfs-Brock Associates @rebeccawirfs-brock2035 RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccaw1 https://twitter.com/rebeccawb https://discuss.systems/@rebeccawb https://wirfs-brock.com ABSTRACT The ouroboros is a mythical serpent shaped into a circle, clinging to and devouring its tail in an endless cycle of self-destruction, self-creation, and self-renewal. Becoming a good designer of software sometimes feels like that. Cultivating and refining personal #DesignHeuristics is one way we become better software designers. Whether we are aware of it or not, we each use #heuristics that we have acquired through reading, practice, and experience. Heuristics aid in design, guide our use of other heuristics, and even determine our attitude and behavior. You can grow as a designer by becoming more conscious of your heuristics. What are your “go to” heuristics? How well have they worked? Do your successes or failures lead you look to discover new heuristics? While you may read others’ design advice—be it patterns, blog posts, books or stack overflow replies, the heuristics you personally discover on your own design journey are likely to be the most important. [...] RECOMMENDED BOOKS Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code • https://amzn.to/3s2zjyg Andy Oram & Greg Wilson • Beautiful Code • https://amzn.to/3DYDVeM Christian Mayer • The Art of Clean Code • https://amzn.to/3OwljaK Tom DeMarco & Tim Lister • Peopleware • https://amzn.to/3KJmFOq David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #RebeccaWirfsBrock #SoftwareEngineering #Programming #YOWcon Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1