Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 3 years ago. Improve this question What is your best practical user-friendly user-interface design or principle? Please submit those practices that you … Read more
My understanding of the Liskov substitution principle is that some property of the base class that is true or some implemented behaviour of the base class, should be true for the derived class as well. I guess this would mean when a method is defined in a base class, it should never be overrided in … Read more
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 3 years ago. Improve this question Are there any known design principles, best-practices and design patterns that one can follow while designing … Read more
I have a question that I’ve been trying to answer for some time now but can’t figure out: How do you design, or divide up, CouchDB documents? Take a Blog Post for example. The semi “relational” way to do it would be to create a few objects: Post User Comment Tag Snippet This makes a … Read more
What is the dependency inversion principle and why is it important? Answer The books Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices and Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# are the best resources for fully understanding the original goals and motivations behind the Dependency Inversion Principle. The article “The Dependency Inversion Principle” is also a … Read more
Playing around with Swift, coming from a Java background, why would you want to choose a Struct instead of a Class? Seems like they are the same thing, with a Struct offering less functionality. Why choose it then? Answer According to the very popular WWDC 2015 talk Protocol Oriented Programming in Swift (video, transcript), Swift … Read more
I have heard that the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) is a fundamental principle of object oriented design. What is it and what are some examples of its use? Answer A great example illustrating LSP (given by Uncle Bob in a podcast I heard recently) was how sometimes something that sounds right in natural language doesn’t … Read more
I hear the term design language a lot, not in the sense of the vocabulary. For example the Apple Computers built in the 80’s had a Frog Design Language for the characteristically 80’s look for their hardware. Microsoft recently introduced the Metro design language mostly for the software interface. Are there any resources out there … Read more
I want to design a logotype which will be basically made of the handwritten name of the brand. The thing is, that I want to stylize and vectorize the curves, and I want to do it properly (I’m not a design professional). The shape of the letters obviously depends on the handwriting style; I’m rather … Read more
The design used in Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform apps is one used in a lot of modern interfaces. So like how there are many types of designs, from the day of Swiss and Bauhaus to this day of material and flat design — what is this design called? Some attributes to make my question … Read more
