A Comparison of Design Activity of Academics and Practitioners Using the FBS Ontology: A Case Study

Hurst, Ada; Nespoli, Oscar; Abdellahi, Sarah; Gero, John S.

doi:10.1017/dsi.2019.138

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“…Recently, Kannengiesser & Gero (2019) map this theory onto design thinking, what they call fast and slow designing. Experienced designers use more type 1 thinking, or fast design; they can more quickly transform requirements into design solutions (Kannengiesser & Gero 2019;Hurst et al 2019b) using their prior 'canned' designs, or 'design types' (Schön 1988). Novice designers, too, exhibit fast design behaviour; however, their ability to rely on past designs is limited.…”

Section: Design Thinking In Increased Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

Design at hackathons: new opportunities for design research

Flus

Hurst

2021

Des. Sci.

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Hackathons are short-term events at which participants work in small groups to ideate, develop and present a solution to a problem. Despite their popularity, and significant relevance to design research, they have only recently come into research focus. This study presents a review of the existing literature on the characteristics of designing at hackathons. Hackathon participants are found to follow typical divergence–convergence patterns in their design process throughout the hackathon. Unique features include the initial effort to form teams and the significant emphasis on preparing and delivering a solution demo at the final pitch. Therefore, hackathons present themselves as a unique setting in which design is conducted and learned, and by extension, can be studied. Overall, the review provides a foundation to inform future research on design at hackathons. Methodological limitations of current studies on hackathons are discussed and the feasibility of more systematic studies of design in these types of settings is assessed. Further, we explore how the unique nature of the hackathon format and the diverse profiles of hackathon participants with regards to subject matter knowledge, design expertise and prior hackathon experience may affect design cognition and behaviour at each stage of the design process in distinctive ways.

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Section: Design Thinking In Increased Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

Design at hackathons: new opportunities for design research

Flus

Hurst

2021

Des. Sci.

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“…However, due to time constraints, participants are often required to adopt a rapid design thinking approach, potentially limiting exploration of design alternatives (Flus & Olechowski 2023). Experienced designers also exhibit fast design thinking due to their expertise, allowing them to design intuitively and effectively (Hurst et al 2019; Kannengiesser & Gero 2019).…”

Section: Design Education and Hackathonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning by doing? The relationship between effort, learning effect and product quality during hackathons of novice teams

Martins Pacheco,

Geisler,

Bajramovic

et al. 2024

Des. Sci.

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Design education prepares novice designers to solve complex and challenging problems requiring diverse skill sets and an interdisciplinary approach. Hackathons, for example, offer a hands-on, collaborative learning approach in a limited time frame to gain practical experience and develop problem-solving skills quickly. They enable collaboration, prototyping and testing among interdisciplinary teams. Typically, hackathons strongly focus on the solution, assuming that this will support learning. However, building the best product and achieving a strong learning effect may not be related. This paper presents the results of an empirical study that examines the relationship between product quality, learning effect and effort spent in an academic 2-week hackathon. Thirty teams identified user problems in this course and developed hardware and mechatronic products. This study collected the following data: (1) effort spent during the hackathon through task tracking, (2) learning effect through self-assessment by the participants and (3) product quality after the hackathon by an external jury. The study found that the team effort spent has a statistically significant but moderate correlation with product quality. The correlation between product quality and learning effect is statistically insignificant, suggesting that for this setting, there is no relevant association.

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“…While not claiming to be a domain independent methodology, the ontology is very useful in abstracting designs and the act of designing to be commensurable between tasks and activities. It is applicable to acts of designing by both practitioners and academics is of use in trying to uncover whether or not domain-independent methods or adoption thereof exist in design tasks (Hurst et al, 2019).…”

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Domain-Independent Design Theory and Methodology to Boost the Adoption of Design Methods

Borgianni

Dixon

Ekwaro-Osire

et al. 2023

JID

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Since its inception, research on design methods has encompassed a number of objectives and fields. In this fragmentary and evolving landscape, a reflection was apparently needed on the chance to provide a general framework and understand the progress (if any) towards a unified and domain-independent design theory and methodology. The issue was discussed by the authors, among the others, during a workshop organized by the Society of Design and Process Science. The paper reports the most important points that emerged in the debate, which was kicked off by panellists’ talks providing different perspectives on domain-independent design and the adoption of design methods by industry and practitioners. The discussion highlighted the relevance of design education, individual factors, as well as the role of designers in nowadays’ changing world. A major take-away from the workshop is the forecast that, in the foreseeable future, a shared design knowledge will be developed, but this will be juxtaposed by peculiar and bespoke design practices.

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A Comparison of Design Activity of Academics and Practitioners Using the FBS Ontology: A Case Study

Cited by 4 publications

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Design at hackathons: new opportunities for design research

Design at hackathons: new opportunities for design research

Learning by doing? The relationship between effort, learning effect and product quality during hackathons of novice teams

Domain-Independent Design Theory and Methodology to Boost the Adoption of Design Methods

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