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This may not be a good introductory overview but will contain a bunch of interesting ideas: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

Old but good: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/parnas-criteria.html

More ideas:

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

http://misko.hevery.com/2008/07/30/top-10-things-which-make-...