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Notes on the Synthesis of Form

by Christopher Alexander · Recommended by 1 person on 1 podcast

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Well, it was the same kind of way with these user interfaces. Nobody knew how to organize them. So we gave this initial set of patterns that Ward had come up with and we'd talked about Christopher Alexander and patterns and I ran across a copy of notes on the synthesis of form at Powell's books in Portland and devoured.
Kent Beck · The Pragmatic Engineer · Jul 2026 Listen at 41:11

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“Well, it was the same kind of way with these user interfaces. Nobody knew how to organize them. So we gave this initial set of patterns that Ward had come up with and we'd talked about Christopher Alexander and patterns and I ran across a copy of notes on the synthesis of form at Powell's books in Portland and devoured”