Case studies

There are too many notations that are interesting, and the seeing the breadth and difference between them is both important to know that the framework is general and a useful source of inspiration for when you have a design problem. Also seeing the range of all of the things that people do with notations is one of the most fun parts.

Some of the content here really depends on the terminology and approach from the rest of the book. Obviously we can't cover that all here, instead we try and have pointers back to the main content. There are a few key things you'll need to understand though:

• Notations are not good or bad, only more or less fit for a particular activity and context (REF)
• Notations are not static things, they evolve over time and somewhat predictable lines outlined (REF)
• We use a framework called The Cognitive Dimensions of Notations, or CDs for short, to talk about the properties of notations, a quick summary can be found (REF) or a longer in (REF)

We don't have any particular point to make in this section, it's just things that we found interesting, and thought perhaps others might. This page can live, please feel free to get in touch to suggest another. We'll break these cases studies up into 2 approximate categories - case studies about particular notations, and case studies about mechanisms and everything else.