Design StudiesPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101188
Blair Kuys, Charlie Ranscombe, Wendy Zhang
{"title":"Visualising product concepts to engage manufacturers with little or no industrial design capability","authors":"Blair Kuys, Charlie Ranscombe, Wendy Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101188","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101188","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Underlying theories behind visualisation are well reported in literature; likewise, are visualisation strategies from the perspective of in-house design operations. This research addresses a gap in literature on the topic of visualisation with respect to collaborative design projects with manufacturers that have little or no industrial design capability. The research investigates designers' practices and characteristics of visualisations from 15 new product development projects, followed by a series of reflections by designers involved. Findings illustrate how designers combine different styles of visualisation to balance details, accuracy, aesthetics and fidelity in response to the type of project and </span>collaborator's capability. We conclude with examples of best practice for designers when using visualisation to engage manufacturers who have little experience with industrial design.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101188"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47019125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101201
Ahmad Beltagui, Andrew Bell, Marina Candi
{"title":"A sociomaterial perspective on epistemic objects in design practice","authors":"Ahmad Beltagui, Andrew Bell, Marina Candi","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101201","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Digital technologies enable realistic and highly refined representations early in the design process, yet designers frequently use rudimentary objects in their design practice. This research proposes a framework to explain characteristics of objects that make them appropriate for different roles in complex design projects. Objects created by designers in three research settings are explored through interviews. Through the lens of sociomateriality, objects are seen in roles of joining conversation across knowledge boundaries or encapsulating conversation. Four characteristics of fidelity, investment, ambiguity, and history are proposed to determine which role an object is suited to. The framework helps explain and guide effective use of technology and appropriate use of objects in design.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101201"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47232858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101189
Diana Osmólska, Alan Lewis
{"title":"Architects' use of intuition in site analysis: Information gathering in solution development","authors":"Diana Osmólska, Alan Lewis","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores site analysis, which involves designing a building in outline to test whether a particular site can accommodate a given proposal. During this process, information is gathered to develop and test solution conjectures. Designers' examination of solution-conjectures is underexplored. In addressing this issue, the study draws on dual-processing theory, where cognitive processes are divided into Type 1 and 2; the former being intuitive and efficient, and the latter effortful and slow. 21 interviews were conducted. The findings indicate that architects can avoid complex analysis by reframing difficult questions to reach solution-information-satisfaction. Confidence associated with narratives accompanying solution development prompted feelings of solution-satisfaction, leading to information neglect, major delays, and other problems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101189"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42361397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101191
Sofie Verclyte , Catherine Willems
{"title":"A design anthropology of collaborative making: Exploring shoemaking and embroidery practices","authors":"Sofie Verclyte , Catherine Willems","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Design anthropology covers various design practices and research. While some researchers/pactitioners rely on anthropological insights to enhance design, others use design as a tool to gain anthropological knowledge. This paper explores the symbiotic relation between design and anthropology and proposes a ‘design anthropology of collaborative making’. It contributes to gaining insights in plural ways of knowing while providing contextual insights that inform design practices. Starting from a common skill from an ‘in-habitat’ position, we consider both perspectives and invite collaborative engagement between people and materiality. Based on collaborations with the San community in Namibia on shoemaking and with Syrian refugee women through embroidery, we explore the added value of this tactile engagement through making to bridge theory and practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101191"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48645387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101190
Linus Tan, Anita Kocsis, Jane Burry, Eva Kyndt
{"title":"Performance of architectural teams: The role of team learning, reflexivity, boundary crossing and error communication","authors":"Linus Tan, Anita Kocsis, Jane Burry, Eva Kyndt","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101190","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the role of team learning behaviours in the performance of architecture teams. This is significant to architects because most architects work in project teams. Although there is a growing body of research on the behaviours of design teams, this survey is one of the first studies conducted specifically on the learning behaviours of architects working in teams. We conducted a survey with 105 architecture firms in Victoria, Australia to collect perceptions of team learning behaviour and team performance, then interviewed nine architects to explore their team learning practices. Results from the survey demonstrated that team reflexivity, error communication and boundary crossing behaviours were positively associated with team effectiveness and employee satisfaction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 101190"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45706649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101183
Madhurima Das , Anastasia K. Ostrowski , Shelly Ben-David , Gillian J. Roeder , Kimberley Kimura, Catherine D'Ignazio, Cynthia Breazeal, Aditi Verma
{"title":"Auditing design justice: The impact of social movements on design pedagogy at a technology institution","authors":"Madhurima Das , Anastasia K. Ostrowski , Shelly Ben-David , Gillian J. Roeder , Kimberley Kimura, Catherine D'Ignazio, Cynthia Breazeal, Aditi Verma","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101183","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101183","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Engineering aims to solve consequential, real-world problems. To be effective problem-solvers in societal contexts, engineers and designers must be trained to conceptualize and operationalize ethics, equity, and justice in their practice. Our work develops a methodology – based on the Design Justice framework – for ethics, equity, and justice audits of design pedagogy. We apply this methodology to audit design and design critique courses at a technology institution – the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Through this audit we identify exemplar courses as well as ways in which courses fail to engage with ethics, equity, and justice. This audit, the largest of its kind, is a </span>proof of concept of how the audit methodology can be applied to design education and practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101183"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41483758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From ‘if only’ to ‘what if’: An ethnographic study into design thinking and organizational change","authors":"Martijn Felder, Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek , Marthe Stevens , Antoinette de Bont","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101178","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101178","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We aim to understand how public sector organizations practise ‘design thinking’ to respond to changing demands and develop alternative courses of action. The literature on design thinking is largely prescriptive; few studies analyse how change is actually brought about through situated design practices. Design scholars have therefore argued that such practices themselves should take centre stage as objects of analysis. We take an ethnographic approach to studying the design thinking journey of the Dutch Health Inspectorate, using participatory observations and interviews to collect our data. Drawing on the anthropological concept of ritualization, we identify two important mechanisms through which design thinking helped the Inspectorate disrupt existing organizational strategies and engage with stakeholders in a fundamentally new way.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101178"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44803925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Design StudiesPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101187
Nigel Cross
{"title":"Design thinking: What just happened?","authors":"Nigel Cross","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101187","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.destud.2023.101187","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"86 ","pages":"Article 101187"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44459515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}