design
<process> The approach that engineering (and some other) disciplines use
to specify how to create or do something. A successful design must satisfies a
(perhaps informal) functional specification (do what it was designed to do);
conforms to the limitations of the target medium (it is possible to implement);
meets implicit or explicit requirements on performance and resource usage (it is
efficient enough).
A design may also have to satisfy restrictions on the design process itself,
such as its length or cost, or the tools available for doing the design.
In the software life-cycle, design follows requirements analysis and is followed
by implementation.
["Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications", 2nd ed., Grady Booch].
(1996-12-08)
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