Design Tools & Techniques Books


Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Best Price: $35.47
The concept of design patterns transcends programming languages. If you wish to think...
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Best Price: $35.99
What is better? Replacing delegations with inheritance or replacing inheritance with delegation?...
Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (Head First)Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (Head First)
Best Price: $24.89
How I wish I'd had this book earlier in my programming career! The Head First series use a...
Theory of Fun for Game DesignTheory of Fun for Game Design
Best Price: $17.24
Koster has written an incredible book that cannot help but cover game design. The question of...
Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals (4th Edition)Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals (4th Edition)
Best Price: $114.78
This book makes me angry. A good introductory book explains concepts carefully, step-by-step,...


Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of SoftwareDomain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Best Price: $42.99
If your process for writing an application is to start with the database, or to start designing...
SOA Principles of Service Design (Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl)SOA Principles of Service Design (Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl)
Best Price: $35.00
I just bought this book from O'Reilly Safari Books Online. I was mostly looking for some good...
CMMI(R): Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement (2nd Edition) (SEI Series in Software Engineering)CMMI(R): Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement (2nd Edition) (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
Best Price: $37.30
Had to buy this book for CS course at the university. Zero usefulness. All the info is available...
Business Process Change, Second Edition: A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma ProfessionalsBusiness Process Change, Second Edition: A Guide for Business Managers and BPM and Six Sigma Professionals
Best Price: $31.29
I really liked the first edition of this book. It has an overall approach plus a toolkit to...
Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Microsoft .NET Development Series)Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Best Price: $34.00
Very well organized, and good content. Id like to see more diagrams or so, so we can se how...


Digital Design: Principles and Practices Package (4th Edition)Digital Design: Principles and Practices Package (4th Edition)
Best Price: $116.95
Very detailed and well written descriptions. The book is funny and an enjoyable read. The book...
GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos (Interactive Technologies)GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos (Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $31.22
This book is aimed at both desktop application GUI developers and website developers. It shows...
Contemporary Logic Design (2nd Edition)Contemporary Logic Design (2nd Edition)
Best Price: $89.89
I got this book for a Circuits course. The book is hard to get and incredibly convoluted in a...
Contextual Design : A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs (Interactive Technologies)Contextual Design : A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs (Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $60.54
This book is not the end-all be-all methodology for software design. Infact, the authors aren't...
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) (Pragmatic Programmers)Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) (Pragmatic Programmers)
Best Price: $20.45
This is a book of advices on how to make the system running. Not just to write and release it...

Managing the Software Process (SEI Series in Software Engineering)Managing the Software Process (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
Best Price: $27.94
This book is the basis for the SEI's Capability Maturity Model (CMM, not CMMI). Although the...
SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design (Theory in Practice)SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design (Theory in Practice)
Best Price: $26.44
[posted on [..]] Yesterday I've finished reading this interesting book from Nicolai Josuttis....
A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test DesignA Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design
Best Price: $52.00
I purchased this book to help me with a university unit primarily on system testing methods and...
Head First Design Patterns Poster (Head First)Head First Design Patterns Poster (Head First)
Best Price: $5.30
To reiterate the subject for those who care about such things, this useful poster is shipped...
Digital Logic Circuit Analysis and DesignDigital Logic Circuit Analysis and Design
Best Price: $106.60
I am second year student in Electrical Engineering. I used the book to prepare for my Digital...

ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
Best Price: $63.12
The authors have done a wonderful job of taking something complicated and making it very simple,...
Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NETApplying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET
Best Price: $38.98
I have come back to this book after first digging into it when it first came out. At that time,...
The Rational Unified Process Made Easy: A Practitioner's Guide to the RUP (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)The Rational Unified Process Made Easy: A Practitioner's Guide to the RUP (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Best Price: $37.15
I read 'Rational Unified Process - An Introduction' some years ago and found it excellent. I got...
The Usability Engineering Lifecycle: A Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design (Interactive Technologies)The Usability Engineering Lifecycle: A Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design (Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $62.58
This book is very well written, content-rich and provides a plethora of examples that I can use...
Mastering the Requirements Process (2nd Edition)Mastering the Requirements Process (2nd Edition)
Best Price: $47.92
I recommend this book to anyone interested in discovering and documenting requirements whether...

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and ToolsCompilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Best Price: $22.00
This book is famous, and when I told people 20 years my senior that I was in compilers and I was...
The Algorithm Design ManualThe Algorithm Design Manual
Best Price: $70.75
This book is splitted in two parts. The first part mostly contains general advices about...
PSP(sm): A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers (SEI Series in Software Engineering)PSP(sm): A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
Best Price: $44.95
This book is a great tool to learn how to improve our development process. I'm very happy with...
Software Testing and Analysis: Process, Principles and TechniquesSoftware Testing and Analysis: Process, Principles and Techniques
Best Price: $43.24
The first comprehensive book on software test and analysis You can't "test quality...
Software Requirements: Styles & TechniquesSoftware Requirements: Styles & Techniques
Best Price: $50.99
"Software requirements - styles and techniques" is best book I have ever read on SW...

Introduction to the Personal Software Process(sm) (SEI Series in Software Engineering)Introduction to the Personal Software Process(sm) (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
Best Price: $24.69
The Personal Software Process (PSP), which is a registered service mark of Carnegie Mellon...
User Interface Design for ProgrammersUser Interface Design for Programmers
Best Price: $20.00
This book is aimed at programmers who don't have the time or inclination to do research on user...
Measuring the Software Process: Statistical Process Control for Software Process Improvement (SEI Series in Software Engineering)Measuring the Software Process: Statistical Process Control for Software Process Improvement (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
Best Price: $50.35
This book contains the keys to meeting core CMM level 5 requirements, which defines key...
Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques (Worldwide Series in Computer Science)Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques (Worldwide Series in Computer Science)
Best Price: $67.40
This book should not be the primary text used for a Systems Engineering course, yet it was. I...
Large-Scale C++ Software Design (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)Large-Scale C++ Software Design (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Best Price: $38.00
I have to admit, this book is nothing like I thought it would be. It has more C++ than anything...

Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software InterfaceComputer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
Best Price: $13.00
I have a math degree but never did much CS in college, and now I am trying to answer a simple...
User Interface Design and Evaluation (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies)User Interface Design and Evaluation (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies)
Best Price: $55.11
I can't tell you how many people I've told to read this book. It's one of the first references I...
IBM Rational Unified Process Reference and Certification Guide: Solution Designer (RUP)IBM Rational Unified Process Reference and Certification Guide: Solution Designer (RUP)
Best Price: $24.45
This book is excelent, but I don't make my exam yet. By the way I can't rate this book in 5...
Program Development and Design Using C++, Third EditionProgram Development and Design Using C++, Third Edition
Best Price: $86.34
I used this book for a College C++ programming class. This was the required textbook, and it...
Introduction to Software Engineering Design: Processes, Principles and Patterns with UML2Introduction to Software Engineering Design: Processes, Principles and Patterns with UML2
Best Price: $79.95
I used Introduction to Software Engineering Design in a graduate course. I found it a very...

CMMI(R) Survival Guide: Just Enough Process Improvement (SEI Series in Software Engineering)CMMI(R) Survival Guide: Just Enough Process Improvement (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
Best Price: $25.00
I've been exposed to a number of process improvement methodologies throughout my career, as well...
Engineering Design and Graphics with Autodesk Inventor 2008 (Autodesk Design Institute Press)Engineering Design and Graphics with Autodesk Inventor 2008 (Autodesk Design Institute Press)
Best Price: $69.22
This is a great book for learning and teaching Inventor. If you have never used Inventor I would...
Data Structures and Program Design In C (2nd Edition)Data Structures and Program Design In C (2nd Edition)
Best Price: $67.79
Some parts of this book could have been written the same way by a monkey. It is typical of...
Essential Business Process ModelingEssential Business Process Modeling
Best Price: $19.97
A key factor for BPM is the capturing and effective expression of a business process in a way...
CMMI and Six Sigma: Partners in Process Improvement (SEI Series in Software Engineering)CMMI and Six Sigma: Partners in Process Improvement (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
Best Price: $35.00
"In this book, I have found answers to key questions and misconceptions about the...

C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Best Price: $43.91
I purchased this book through Amazon on October 16 2006 11:05 PDT. I finally killed the order...
Real-Time Design Patterns: Robust Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Systems (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)Real-Time Design Patterns: Robust Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Systems (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Best Price: $34.96
This text is being used in a company wide campaign to improve system Software quality and Time...
GPU Gems 2: Programming Techniques for High-Performance Graphics and General-Purpose Computation (Gpu Gems)GPU Gems 2: Programming Techniques for High-Performance Graphics and General-Purpose Computation (Gpu Gems)
Best Price: $39.98
Written simply and clearly, I found it really interesting to read. Tho sometimes I'd wish more...
User Interface Design: A Software Engineering PerspectiveUser Interface Design: A Software Engineering Perspective
Best Price: $69.64
I got the slide of this book at this address http://www.itu.dk/%7Eslauesen/UID/UID_course.pps....
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Best Price: $18.99
After starting a few books in this series, this is the one I ended up finishing because of its...

CMMI Distilled: A Practical Introduction to Integrated Process Improvement (3rd Edition) (SEI Series in Software Engineering)CMMI Distilled: A Practical Introduction to Integrated Process Improvement (3rd Edition) (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
Best Price: $25.99
This book is easy to read and well organized and provides a great overview of CMMI. A good...
Real-Time Design Patterns: Robust Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Systems (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)Real-Time Design Patterns: Robust Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Systems (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Best Price: $34.96
This text is being used in a company wide campaign to improve system Software quality and Time...
GPU Gems 2: Programming Techniques for High-Performance Graphics and General-Purpose Computation (Gpu Gems)GPU Gems 2: Programming Techniques for High-Performance Graphics and General-Purpose Computation (Gpu Gems)
Best Price: $39.98
Written simply and clearly, I found it really interesting to read. Tho sometimes I'd wish more...
User Interface Design: A Software Engineering PerspectiveUser Interface Design: A Software Engineering Perspective
Best Price: $69.64
I got the slide of this book at this address http://www.itu.dk/%7Eslauesen/UID/UID_course.pps....
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Best Price: $18.99
After starting a few books in this series, this is the one I ended up finishing because of its...

Project Management Success with CMMI(R): Seven CMMI Process AreasProject Management Success with CMMI(R): Seven CMMI Process Areas
Best Price: $28.95
OK, I have purchased 2 books by James Persse on CMM and CMMI. The first book I bought was...
Process Improvement Essentials: CMMI, Six Sigma, and ISO 9001Process Improvement Essentials: CMMI, Six Sigma, and ISO 9001
Best Price: $26.45
I bought this book to familiarize myself with process engineering concepts prior to taking a...
Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, PerfectCritical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
Best Price: $44.93
I would not consider this book to be a "practical" book, where someone could find a...
The Art of Human-Computer Interface DesignThe Art of Human-Computer Interface Design
Best Price: $6.00
Of course this book dosen't metion the web. It was written back when the WWW was not even a...
Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer)Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer)
Best Price: $21.43
I got this book because i'm completely self-taught in programming (including mostly Wrox books)...
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