Christopher Alexander's fifteen properties applied to the design of communication

Authors:
John W. Stamey, Jr.;Thomas L. Honeycutt
Affiliations:
Coastal Carolina University;North Carolina State University
Venue:
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international conference on Design of communication: The engineering of quality documentation
Year:
2004

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Abstract

This paper examines Christopher Alexander's Fifteen Fundamental Properties of Living Structures, and their relationship to the design of communication through website development. The Fifteen Properties are found to describe and provide solutions to a number of common quality problems in websites. In the spirit of design patterns, originated by Alexander, each Property is presented as part of a pattern describing a design problem in the website context, and its resolution through appropriate application of the Property.