Constructing a Design Space from a Collection of Design Examples

Flashcards about constructing and analyzing design spaces from design examples.

What does Donald Schön call the important resources in design?

Previous design cases and examples, conceptualized as the designer's repertoire.

What is introduced for approaching and gathering design examples?

A tool for constructing and analyzing the design spaces that collections of design examples form.

In deconstructing each design example, what is it broken down into?

Aspects of concern and options for how these aspects can be implemented.

What does the representation within a design space schema comprising aspect-option sets make it possible to conceptualize?

A design space of aspect-option sets reflecting the focal collection, with individual examples positioned within.

What knowledge building process does the study enable with the two main elements?

Developing a language to describe the examples in terms of the aspect-option sets, and exploring the design space through filtering the design space.

What does the study investigate regarding a collection of prior design examples?

A systematic way of representing and analyzing a given collection of design examples.

What did Michael Biskjaer, Peter Dalsgaard, and Kim Halskov describe in their work that the study builds on?

A design space using a schema based on sets of aspects and associated options, which may be applied to identify the location of a single instance in a design space.

What does the study make it possible for designers and design researchers to do?

Gain deeper insight into the design choices the selected examples reflect by operationalizing a design space of prior examples.

What does the study suggest as a way of generating knowledge for the early stages of other design methods?

A means of extracting and representing knowledge about collections of existing design examples and generating input for other design methods.

What does the study contribute to the academy?

Deconstructing collections of design examples, and then constructing, analyzing, and operationalizing a design space relative to the collection.

For the inquiry, what does the term design space utilize?

The term connotes a metaphorical space of possible or actual design ideas.

What do Wolker Wulf and his colleagues present?

A framework enabling design cases to be compared across three phases of a design research project.

What are powerful tools for communicating design knowledge and theory?

Annotated portfolios and design patterns.

Making reference to examples from earlier design cases, and the implicit repertoire of knowledge they carry, is also what?

A well-established strategy for enhancing creativity that features in a range of methods including inspiration card workshops and other similar card-based methods.

What can design space schema enable designers to visualize?

The location of a single instance in a design space.

What can design space schema highlight?

How design choices introduce creativity constraints.

What can design space schema enable designers to visualize and highlight?

snapshots of the design space at particular points in time and highlight how design choices introduce creativity constraints.

What role does merit functions play in computer aided parametric design engineering?

mapping a design space onto a set of real numbers, which are ordered in accordance with a preference rule.

Design can be understood as what?

Traversing this network in search of opportunities to insert new alternatives.

Lim, Stolterman, and Tenenberg argue that what is being achieved by prototyping?

prototypes are built as filters, which are used to traverse the design space and manifest specific design ideas.

systematic investigation into the design space of textual information visualization result in what?

increases the robustness of design space definition and evaluation.

How did systematic investigations improve the robustness of the design space definition and evaluation?

tabulating attributes and options according to instantiation.

What is the definition of a design space schema to represent the design space?

A table-like representation of aspects of interest to designers or design researchers for use in constructing a schema, including the various options that may instantiate each aspect.

What are the 3 main stages to construct design space of examples?

Selecting the example cases and framing the inquiry, selecting aspects of interest and associating options, and posing questions to help identify location.

Why may you wish to conceptualize a design space?

conceptualize a design space to better understand a particular field of interaction design, or the design choices related to a specific technology, or characterize the aspects of a specific designer’s practice, or that of a design studio

In prior research, what has design space schema been used for?

design space schema are used to provide an overview of various concerns relative to collaborative design projects, offer insight into how designers and researchers map and manipulate design constraints, support reflection on design choices, and to investigate the dynamics of particular domains, such as game jams.

Which aspects of interest will make up the columns in a design space schema?

Depends on the situation, but depends of prior research and experience. Designers' and design researchers' experiences.

What area does media architecture focus on?

Media architecture focuses on the integration of digital technologies and displays into the built environment

Where are examples of media architecture found?

examples found in art, advertising, news, public service, and gaming.

What metadata became the initial aspect-option sets for the design space schema?

The MAB award categorization for each installation, the year the installation was built or first exhibited and the year it was nominated, and the installation’s geographical location.

How should design space analysis be treated?

Iterative process that considers each example design case in turn.

What are the dimension of the design known as Spine?

Spine, a design case that we took up later in our analysis is made up of 20×1m³ cubes, suspended from the ceiling of a disused factory building, forming a “spine” 50 meters in length.

When designers analyze a collection and construct a design space, what does it help them do?

Identifying commonalities and exploring differences in the ways designers respond to similar questions.

By interrogating these design spaces, what can designers identify?

Identify relationships among the outcomes of a large number of individual design decisions, and uncover opportunities for innovation by considering why certain combinations of aspect-options sets may have been discounted or ignored

The design space schema and aspect-option notation offer what?

Offer a constrained yet flexible framework for analysis that is free of pre-defined categories or hierarchies.

What does experimenting new choices and iteratively testing how useful aspect-option sets are in describing a collection of design examples help us do?

The practice helps people develop the language to discuss a particular design space, and the insight gained supports generative design activity and analytical design research.

In media architecture's constraint and possibilities, what's invisble pixel is?

Invisible refers to pixels with a shape and/or size that cannot be individuated by the naked eye; the kind of pixel familiar from laptops and mobile devices.

Our approach introduces what fundamental creativity mechanism?

Combining two concepts produces a new concept, or a novel idea.

What does an awareness about design aspects could open?

An awareness that there are no cases where a Dynamic pixel pattern is combined with Mobile Phones for User Interaction, or where a 3-Dimensional pixel pattern is used to display Text content, also opens a new design space of innovative exploration.