Henrique C asks: Are you familiar with the work of Christopher Alexander, specially the book “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”? If so, do you see similarities with the design processes he proposes and your “concept design”?
Yes, I love that book, and I discuss it in my book (as well as other aspects of Alexander’s work). I don’t think concept design has that much in common with the method he describes in NOSF (although I have been very inspired by his notion of misfit, which I use in my book as a way to describe concept design failures). Concept design has more in common with his pattern language work that came later—and concepts seem to be closer to what he had in mind than the GOF design patterns (which made Alexander famous to computer scientists), because those are more about implementation, while concepts, like Alexander’s patterns, are more about the user’s experience.