Designed Stickiness

How sticky metaphors can communicate better software models.

By Mathias Verraes
Published on 24 May 2016



Video & slides for my NCrafts talk on software metaphors.

Abstract

When we model, we tend to do it for ourselves: gain understanding, capture the business language, and turn it into running code. But are we missing opportunities to do something more with our models? What if, instead of mirroring the business, our models could transform it? Let’s find out how a healthy obsession with language and metaphor can step up from “domain-driven” to “driving the domain”.