The 'Physics' of Notations: Toward a Scientific Basis for Constructing Visual Notations in Software Engineering

Moody, D. (2009). The 'Physics' of Notations: Toward a Scientific Basis for Constructing Visual Notations in Software Engineering. The Physics of Notations.

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• Diagram Model Choice
  • Its failure mode is choosing on aesthetic or notational fluency: the genre the modeler knows best, or the one that produces the tidiest layout, wins over the one that fits, and a beautiful diagram then encodes a subtly wrong claim about what matters.

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