contemporary adj. n. 同时代的，同龄人

例句：The field of user-interface design progressed from a heavy focus on technology (implementation) to an equally heavy focus on metaphor. There is ample evidence of all three paradigms in contemporary software design, even though the metaphoric paradigm is the only one that has been named and described.
用户界面设计领域经历了从极度重视技术（实现）到同样重视隐喻的过程，虽然只有隐喻这种范例得到了命名和描述，但在当代软件设计中不乏这3类范例的事例。