Designers are busy people, and they are getting busier. In today's world designers must deal with three competing pressures: rapid changes in end-user technologies and applications domains, marketplace demands for innovation in products and services, and a steady stream of improvements in implementation technologies.

There have been a number of attempts to drive design from responsibilities, features, tests, models, behavior, domains, and contracts. If we follow one or more of design approaches, will we make things better? Do any of these approaches (RDD, FDD, TDD, and so on) offer any help to the busy designer?

This workshop is a forum to discuss the design principles that are most effective. The workshop will help methodologists and academics to get some feedback on how their new design ideas are received by everyday practitioners, and it will be a place for industry practitioners to share experiences about what design practices work.

Submissions deadline: August 27, 2012