How much do you know about smells in design?

Do you know that there are more than 500 design smells documented in literature or reported by designers? Do you know that all smells could be viewed as violation of underlying design principles? Do you need a ready catalog of design smells that is grounded on research and relevant for practice? 

Interested? Check the results of our research work on design smells and how the results can help you in practice. 

This presentation summarizes research behind our design smells work: 
http://www.slideshare.net/sgganesh/principle-based-classification-of-design-smells


Principle based classification of design smells from Ganesh SG Our original paper is here: http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2013_06/article1.pdf 

This presentation is practical - it follows an example driven approach for design smells: 
http://www.slideshare.net/sgganesh/refactoring-for-design-smells

Refactoring for design smells from Ganesh SG Hope you enjoy reading them! And yes, please do share your thoughts.