Week 8- The Nature of Good Design

-Design- process of describing, organising and structuring system components at architectural design level and detailed design level
- converts functional models from analysis into models that represent the solution, focused on technical issues, less user involvement

Design Phase Activities:
- Design and intergrate the network
- Design the application architecture
- Design the interfaces
- Design the system interfaces
- Design and intergrate the database
- Prototype for design details
- Design and interfrate system controls

Deployment Environment:
- Single- Computer and Multi-user Architecture
- Centralised and Distributed Architecture

Computer Networks:
- Set of transmission lines, specialised hardware and communication protocols
- LANs, WANS, Internet, Intranet

Application Architecture:
- Standards and tools used in an organisation
- Client-Server Architecture
- Inernet and Web-based Application archieture