Design Methods Set of guidelines, heuristics, and procedures on how to go about designing a system Usually offer a notation to express result of design process Trying to provide a systematic means for organizing the design process and its products Design method may be based on Functional decomposition Data flow Data structures Control flow Objects Vary in degree of prescriptivenessCopyright Nancy Leveson, Sept. 1999 c Design Methods Set of guidelines, heuristics, and procedures on how to go about designing a system. Usually offer a notation to express result of design process. Trying to provide a systematic means for organizing the design process and its products. Design method may be based on: Functional decomposition Data flow Data structures Control flow Objects Vary in degree of prescriptiveness ���