But what do we really know about the design process? What leads to effective, elegant designs? The Design of Design addresses these questions. These new essays by Fred Brooks contain extraordinary insights for designers in every discipline.

These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system.

The book concludes with six case study "trips" through design spaces ranging from beach houses to IBM's Operating System/360 - the project that made Brooks famous some four decades ago.

General literature -- Introductory and Survey.

These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system.

The orderly Sweet-Williams are dismayed at their son's fondness for the messy pastime of gardening.