Showing papers in "Design Studies in 2018"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conduct a two-part review that combines systematic and critical components of design research, and identify key learning indicating future directions for theory-driven design research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce three dimensions of engagement of scoping, developing and scaling that can be essential in developing a holistic approach to participatory design as a sustainable practice of social change.

TL;DR: A history of architectural participatory design from the mid-twentieth century can be found in this paper, where the authors trace the ways that architects invite participation in the design of future environments.

TL;DR: In this article, a typology of creative spaces that is relevant to facilitating creative working and learning processes for designers is presented, drawing on qualitative user research with cultural probes in a design thinking institution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define design ethics in relation to the distinction between 'ethics' and'morality' and draw out new issues and questions by examining three commonly encountered categories in design, namely, technology, sustainability, and responsibility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors advocate the expansion of inclusive design into a more material, inclusive designer-making movement, to acknowledge the universal problem of designing for everyone's unique difference, by bringing the bodily experience of people with (dis)abilities more closely into their own design processes.

TL;DR: In this article, an observation-based protocol study is used to explore the interaction between uncertainty perception and three core actions connected in design activity: information action, knowledge sharing action, and representation action.

TL;DR: A qualitative case study of a professional design team's use of idea generation with analyses at five emergent timescales and looks at the structure, the content, and the actions of the team.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the concrete practices of participants' engagement in participatory design through an empirical case in which nurses from different hospital wards began as reluctant users, but gradually engaged in processes approaching genuine participation.

TL;DR: The pragmatic evaluation model is introduced, a framework to cyclically evaluate and evolve design methods in professional design practice and can provide opportunities for research aimed at understanding how design methods can be adapted and evolved to support professional designpractice.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new creative design method, based on the principles of drama improvisation, with brainstorming is compared, and the results of an evaluation of both methods in controlled team ideation sessions are documented.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of gestures and interactions with Post-It notes on a similar footing to speech and text, focusing on how they function as cognitive externalisations that, through grouping activities, support categorisation qualities associated with semantic long-term memory.

TL;DR: A DHSfX is a collection of design heuristics that are likely to help assistive product designers produce solution concepts successfully meeting a particular design goal X.

TL;DR: In this paper, the value sensitive design framework is used to illustrate how a working compromise among the seemingly conflicting values involved can be found by using the value mix used and the resulting concept informs solar proponents in siting solar in culturally sensitive ways and shows the heritage constituency that solar technology does not categorically mean a misfit with cultural heritage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the principles that regional designers use to structure and organize their design process and highlight the extremely ill-defined, unstructured and volatile design situations that regional designing engages with.

TL;DR: This paper explores how PCC can support PD researchers to acquire relational expertise and argues that designers should value this relational approach and make transparent how it informs the design decisions.

TL;DR: How DIY practitioners can produce useful artefacts with limited resources is reviewed to validate the repeatability of the principle classification through crowd-sourced assessment and show a positive correlation between exposure to the principles and enhanced design outcome.

TL;DR: In this article, speculative prototyping is used to generate spaces of friction and counter-participation in a case of urban hacking conducted with homeless people in Santiago de Chile, where the authors argue that the permeability of prototyping can evoke forms of counterparticipation, in which frictions are not limited under the concept of consensus, but rather used in an inventive manner to explore the issues at hand.

TL;DR: A key function of stories within this collaborative design process is proposed as holding value tension, allowing contrasting values to coexist together.

TL;DR: This paper used the concept of framing as a means of examining design process and explored interactions between a small design team as they collaborate to design a workshop which forms part of a larger project.

TL;DR: A multiple case study was conducted to investigate the machineries of designers' user knowledge production at six design consultancies in the Northwestern USA in domains of architecture, industrial design, and interaction design, indicating that the user is not a given; instead, the users is a constructed phenomenon in design.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce four objective measures of design typicality (two based on Euclidian distances between feature points and two based on pixel-wise image correlations) and demonstrate their capability of capturing a subjective typicality experience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for an approach to infrastructuring that focuses on how we do, and create capacity to do, the work of infrastructure locally with people and groups affected by and working in relation to the systems we seek to engage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the use of precedent to explore how problems and solutions are framed during discussion, and argue that precedents enable a diffusion of semi-objective meaning in discussion, similar to a prototype in a more conventional design process.

TL;DR: A new perspective on design as collaborative inquiry – a social process of building coherence to co-construct valid knowledge for realizing user-centred products is offered.

TL;DR: The present study contributes to literature concerned with conceptualising design imagination as social by identifying an analytical distinction between transitive and intransitive dimensions of design conversations.