MONITORING DESIGN THINKING THROUGH IN-SITU INTERVENTIONS

DS 68-7: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Vol. 7: Human Behaviour in Design, Lyngby/Copenhagen, Denmark, 15.-19.08.2011

Year: 2011
Editor: Culley, S.J.; Hicks, B.J.; McAloone, T.C.; Howard, T.J. & Badke-Schaub, P.
Author: Lande, Micah; Sonalkar, Neeraj; Jung, Malte; Han, Christopher; Banerjee, Banny; Leifer, Larry J.
Series: ICED
Section: Human Behaviour in Design
Page(s): 384-393

Abstract

Abstract - Building on existing knowledge of design and design thinking we apply several other fields of knowledge such as emotion coding, improvisation, ethnography, social psychology, and decision analysis into key metrics we call Design Thinking Metrics (DTM). We applied these metrics to analyze and assess videos of software design teams. We then conducted a workshop series with a profes-sional software design team to use DTM as a perceptual tool to test a number of action-repertoires that could be used to improve Design Thinking practice. The result is multi-disciplinary perceptual moni-toring of design thinking activity in professional software practice.

Keywords: TEAM PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; INTERACTION ANALYSIS; DESIGN METRICS

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