How Designers Use Design Principles: Design Behaviors and Application Modes

This paper investigates how information systems design professionals use design principles (extracted from a prior design science research project) in a new design situation. We do this by capturing think-aloud protocols from experienced design professionals who are given access to potentially usefu...

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Published inJournal of the Association for Information Systems Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 1235 - 1270
Main Authors Kruse, Leona Chandra, Purao, Sandeep, Seidel, Stefan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Atlanta Association for Information Systems 01.01.2022
Subjects
Chaining
Code reuse
Design
Designers
Digital libraries
Empirical analysis
Explicit knowledge
Information systems
Principles
Professionals
Research projects
Science
Systems design
Two dimensional analysis
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Summary:This paper investigates how information systems design professionals use design principles (extracted from a prior design science research project) in a new design situation. We do this by capturing think-aloud protocols from experienced design professionals who are given access to potentially useful design principles. Our analysis identifies two dimensions of use: design behaviors (what designers do) and application modes (how designers apply the principles). Mapping across the dimensions suggests two use pathways: forward chaining and backward chaining. Our study shows how empirically studying expert designers can shed light on the microprocesses of design principles in use, and how an empirical turn in the investigation can contribute to clarifying the fundamental nature of design principles. We conclude by highlighting the implications of these insights for crafting more useful design principles.
ISSN:1536-9323
1536-9323
DOI:10.17705/1jais.00759