Peter Dalsgaard, Michael Mose Biskjaer, Jonas Frich
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Abstract
Managing ideas is a central activity of professional designers and an essential element in the creative design process. However, while designers use a diverse range of tools to capture, manage, and recollect ideas, they often lack well-established and proven efficient routines for doing so. To better understand how these idea-centered design processes play out and, potentially, might be improved, we conducted a longitudinal study with ten professional designers where we deployed a technology probe in the form of an app, Recollect, to explore critical aspects of their idea management practices. Based on weekly interviews, we contribute four central insights, which pairwise form two current tensions related to idea capture and idea recollection among designers. These two tensions are that 1) designers have similar conceptions of what constitutes a good design idea, but have very diverse practices for working with ideas; and that 2) designers find value in revisiting ideas, but lack structured and efficient approaches for doing so. We discuss the implications of these findings, and we propose that the complexity of designers' idea management practices call for more research.
期刊介绍:
Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy.
Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.