As cultures and technologies evolve, new domains emerge, new fields of practitioners populate them, and old domains fade away. The techniques of computer animation have generated an entire new domain of creative work in cinema, television, and advertising. These days, though, people aren’t spending quite as much time as they used to illuminating manuscripts.
There’s a discipline around this in software called Domain-Driven Design. The intent is to create better software by engaging deeply with practitioners in other knowledge domains and developing software that aligns with that domain’s structures and information architecture instead of the sensibilities of computer science.
