Maybe I should clarify my (somewhat unclear I admit;-) thoughts on this point. The reason for posing this question were the following:
My personal design experience is from working more as a single designer or in a small team (of coures involving the users;-). Two years ago now, we put together a joint course where product design students and engineering students were to work together (the course still runs and the students appear to enjoy it:-). In the process of doing so I went through a lot of design litterature, which seemed to agree very well with the kind of experience I had (I do not have a formal design background - I come from the technical side).
Occasionally however, I talk to people who teach design of large technical systems, and there seems to be a rather definite methodology (if I understand them correctly). And of course (at least simple mindedly) the more people that are involved the more you have to formalize the process - the kind of openness/flexibility possible in a smaller team is no longer possible (or is it?)....
Best wishes!
/Charlotte
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From: Lubomir S. Popov [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: fredag den 20 september 2002 18:14
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Subject: Re: Building the Field? Useable Information
At 09:42 AM 9/20/2002 +0200, Charlotte Magnusson wrote:
>Another thing which I would be interested to find out more about is the
>way the amount of persons involved influence the design process. My
>feeling is that roughly speaking the process will be more rigid (and maybe
>more of a method) the more persons there are. Anybody who can direct me to
>anybody who has studied this, or has ideas on the subject?
It is quite possible because when you have several people involved, there
should be communication among them. You might have heard the joke that the
camel is a horse design by a team. Communication and mutual understanding
are major issues in teamwork. Interpersonal communication requires that
concepts are defined as clearly as possible (in order to assure mutual
understanding), which in turn contributes to more rigor and if you want,
rigidity. Arts allow for softer methodology because in that area the idea
generation function is fulfilled by only one person (usually).
Lubomir
Lubomir
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