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Ben Matthews - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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tracing Design Practitioner accounts of Design value documentation practices
Designing Interactive Systems, 2020Co-Authors: Awais Hameed Khan, Stephen Snow, Ben MatthewsAbstract:The role of Design in organizations has risen in prominence since the turn of the century. Our collective understanding of this role, identification of Designerly practices, and ability to trace their value and influence within an organizational landscape however remains problematic. Both industry and academia have made distinct efforts to study Design in practice, acknowledging the importance of the value of Design as a competitive instrument but with little agreement on how it is understood, communicated and operationalised. This paper takes a pragmatic orientation, exploring the contemporary challenges Design Practitioners face in terms of documenting, accounting for and communicating the value of Designerly work. We adopt a bottom-up approach, conducting 11 semi-structured interviews with Design Practitioners, to study how Practitioners in situ negotiate the Design-value space. Our findings present Design value communication strategies, how Design knowledge is consumed, what documentation practices are used, and the organizational challenges encountered.
Awais Hameed Khan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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tracing Design Practitioner accounts of Design value documentation practices
Designing Interactive Systems, 2020Co-Authors: Awais Hameed Khan, Stephen Snow, Ben MatthewsAbstract:The role of Design in organizations has risen in prominence since the turn of the century. Our collective understanding of this role, identification of Designerly practices, and ability to trace their value and influence within an organizational landscape however remains problematic. Both industry and academia have made distinct efforts to study Design in practice, acknowledging the importance of the value of Design as a competitive instrument but with little agreement on how it is understood, communicated and operationalised. This paper takes a pragmatic orientation, exploring the contemporary challenges Design Practitioners face in terms of documenting, accounting for and communicating the value of Designerly work. We adopt a bottom-up approach, conducting 11 semi-structured interviews with Design Practitioners, to study how Practitioners in situ negotiate the Design-value space. Our findings present Design value communication strategies, how Design knowledge is consumed, what documentation practices are used, and the organizational challenges encountered.
Jessica Bugg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Interface: concept and context as strategies for innovative fashion Design and communication: an analysis from the perspective of the conceptual fashion Design Practitioner
2006Co-Authors: Jessica BuggAbstract:This practice-led PhD proposes alternative practices in a research and Design context that explore the intersection of fashion, fine art and performance methodology and practice. The project exposes and documents the emergence and development of conceptual and experimental fashion and interdisciplinary practice at the edges of the fashion discipline. The research provides new insights into the way fashion Designers can work conceptually and how their work might be perceived differently, dependent on contexts of presentation. It investigates how the concept behind the Design and the context of presentation affect these readings for both the viewer and the wearer. It uncovers the emotional and experiential factors of fashion and exposes how we experience and respond to clothing/fashion in a variety of contexts. The thesis draws attention to the lack of specific identification given to conceptual thinking in fashion Design as an outcome within its own right and proposes new applications and approaches to this practice. The research methodology developed within the practice extends the potential of communicating body related concepts to wearers and viewers through the medium of clothing worn on the body and can be applied in part or whole across a range disciplines. The thesis synthesises a body of knowledge to inform Practitioners of conceptual fashion and reveals the complexity of communication between Designer, wearer and viewer of conceptual fashion in specific contexts. The researcher has Designed collections of concept-based work, which are not driven by market constraints, trends and seasons but by concepts and processes. These collections have been tested and analysed in a variety of contexts and written up as three major case studies. The process of Design developed within this research focuses on the body, movement and behaviour; through experimentation and testing it reaffirms the emphasis on the creative process allowing for consideration of context as fundamental to the communication of embodied concepts. It is argued that it is necessary for fashion Designers to review the way in which they Design for specific contexts such as dance, exhibition and areas of fashion promotion and communication. This requires a different approach that pays attention to both concept and context at the point of inception.
Stephen Snow - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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tracing Design Practitioner accounts of Design value documentation practices
Designing Interactive Systems, 2020Co-Authors: Awais Hameed Khan, Stephen Snow, Ben MatthewsAbstract:The role of Design in organizations has risen in prominence since the turn of the century. Our collective understanding of this role, identification of Designerly practices, and ability to trace their value and influence within an organizational landscape however remains problematic. Both industry and academia have made distinct efforts to study Design in practice, acknowledging the importance of the value of Design as a competitive instrument but with little agreement on how it is understood, communicated and operationalised. This paper takes a pragmatic orientation, exploring the contemporary challenges Design Practitioners face in terms of documenting, accounting for and communicating the value of Designerly work. We adopt a bottom-up approach, conducting 11 semi-structured interviews with Design Practitioners, to study how Practitioners in situ negotiate the Design-value space. Our findings present Design value communication strategies, how Design knowledge is consumed, what documentation practices are used, and the organizational challenges encountered.
Bokyung Kim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Interior Design Practitioner Motivations for Specifying Sustainable Materials: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to Residential Design
Journal of Interior Design, 2013Co-Authors: Eunsil Lee, April Allen, Bokyung KimAbstract:Although sustainable Design has become one of the major concerns in the interior Design industry, the frequency of making such sustainable choices in real practice is still limited. Given that little research has yet focused on interior Designers' choice of sustainable material, this study aimed to identify factors affecting interior Designers' sustainable material choices focusing on sustainable flooring materials for residential use. On the basis of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as a theoretical framework, we developed hypotheses to test relationships (1) between three determinants (attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control) and behavioral intention and (2) between two behavioral beliefs (environmental outcome and health outcome) and attitude. This study used quantitative methodologies through an Internet survey with a sample selected from American Society of Interior Designers practicing residential Design. A total of 225 final surveys were utilized for further analysis. Findings revealed that all three determinants (attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control) were positively associated with behavioral intention to choose sustainable flooring materials. Attitude toward adopting sustainable flooring materials were significantly related to environmental beliefs but not to health beliefs. Our findings imply that the TPB framework can provide valuable insights for developing more effective and comprehensive strategies and strengthening the interior Design curriculum to promote interior Designers' sustainable decision-making in material choices in actual real-life Design practice.