How Set Design Can Inform Software Architecture With Betsy Haibel

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How Set Design Can Inform Software Architecture With Betsy Haibel

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Guest

Betsy Haibel or betsyhaibel.com, co-founder of Cohere

Summary

Any profession that requires you to hit a budget and a deadline while balancing the project vision with practical logistics has a lot to say to software architects and project managers. Betsy Haibel was a professional theatrical set designer before becoming a software developer and architect, and we talk about how set design is like and not like software design. Not only do we talk about favorite shows, we also give you practical advice for designing your project.

Notes

01:24 - Creative Work as a Set Designer and it’s Relation to Software Architecture

• The Merry Widow
• Man of La Mancha
• Stuart Little

11:13 - Software Architecture Metaphors

• Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark

15:11 - Approaching Software Design as Set Design

17:22 - Designing For Flexibility/Keeping Design Open

• On The Verge
• Falsettoes

27:13 - Scalability in a Smaller vs Larger Environments

• Tent of Dreams

30:44 - Communication

36:12 - Approaching Purity and Reality

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