Skip to main content
Disciplines
Automotive Business IT + Informatics Construction + Real Estate Electrical Engineering + Electronics Energy + Sustainability Insurance + Risk Finance + Banking Management + Leadership Marketing + Sales Mechanical Engineering + Materials
Events
DE
EN
Books
Journals
Topic Page
Marketing
Start single access now
Access for companies
EXTENDED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Published in:
Creativity and Rationale: The Essential Tension Read chapter Read first chapter

2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. Predecessor Artifacts: Evolutionary Perspectives on a Reflective Conversation with Design Materials

Author : Anders I. Mørch

Published in: Creativity and Rationale

Publisher: Springer London

Log in

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config
loading …

Abstract

Donald Schön described designing as a reflective conversation with the materials of a situation, and proposed a phenomenological account of designing. Ray McCall proposed an extension and generalization of Schön’s model that more easily allows for computer support. Building on the work of Schön and McCall, this chapter adopts an evolutionary perspective on the design process and proposes “predecessor artifacts” as a new concept for understanding the reflective conversation with design materials. Predecessor artifacts emerge in creative activities and they encapsulate design history. The concept is applied to software design. Based on a literature survey, experimental prototyping, and empirical analyses in two user organizations, three types of predecessor artifacts are explored: (1) reusable design material, (2) alternative functionality, and (3) reusable design concepts. A goal with PAs is to understand design reuse in software applications from a phenomenological viewpoint.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe




 

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now
previous chapter Achieving Both Creativity and Rationale: Reuse in Design with Images and Claims
next chapter The PRInCiPleS Design Framework
Literature
Alexander, C., Ishikawa, S., & Silverstein, M. (1977). A pattern language: Towns, buildings, construction. New York: Oxford University Press.
Andersen, R., & Mørch, A. I. (2009). Mutual development: A case study in customer-initiated software product development. In V. Pipek, M. B. Rosson, B. de Ruyter, & V. Wulf (Eds.), Proceedings 2nd Int’l Symposium on End User Development (IS-EUD 2009), LNCS (Vol. 5435, pp. 31–49). Berlin: Springer.
Ball, L. J., Lambell, N. J., Ormerod, T. C., Slavin, S., & Mariani, J. A. (2001). Representing design rationale to support innovative design reuse: A minimalist approach. Automation in Construction, 10, 663–674.CrossRef
Basalla, G. (1988). The evolution of technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bergson, H. (1993). Creative evolution. Lanham: University Press of America (Original published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1911).
Brand, S. (1994). How buildings learn: What happens after they’re built. London: Phoenix Illustrated.
Carroll, J. M. (1994). Making use a design representation. Communication of the ACM, 37(12), 28–35.CrossRef
Carroll, J. M. (2011). Design rationale and appropriation: Providing resources to facilitate creative use. In Proceedings CHI 2011, Workshop on appropriation and creative use. New York: ACM.
Carroll, J. M., & Rosson, M. B. (1996). Deliberated evolution: Stalking the View Matcher in design space. In T. P. Moran & J. M. Carroll (Eds.), Design rationale: Concepts, techniques, and use (pp. 107–145). Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Conklin, E. J., & Burgess-Yakemovic, K. C. (1996). A process-oriented approach to design rationale. In T. P. Moran & J. M. Carroll (Eds.), Design rationale: Concepts, techniques, and use (pp. 393–427). Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Ehn, P. (1988). Work-oriented design of computer artifacts. Stockholm: Arbetslivscentrum.
Feyerabend, P. (1999). In B. Terpstra (Ed.), Conquest of abundance: A tale of abstraction versus the richness of being. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Fischer, G. (1994). Turning breakdowns into opportunities for creativity. Knowledge-Based Systems, 7(4), 221–232.CrossRef
Fischer, G., McCall, R., & Morch, A. (1989). Janus: Integrating hypertext with a knowledge-based design environment. In Proceedings Hypertext’89 (pp. 105–117). New York: ACM.
Fischer, G., McCall, R., Ostwald, J., Reeves, B., & Shipman, F. (1994). Seeding, evolutionary growth and reseeding: Supporting the incremental development of design environments. In B. Adelson, S. Dumais, & J. Olson (Eds.), Proceedings of CHI’94 (pp. 292–298). New York: ACM.
Gasser, L. (1986). The integration of computing and routine work. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 4, 205–225.CrossRef
MacLean, A., Young, R., Bellotti, V., & Moran, T. (1991). Questions, options, and criteria: Elements of design space analysis. Human Computer Interaction, 6(3–4), 201–251.CrossRef
McCall, R. (1991). PHI: A conceptual foundation for design hypermedia. Design Studies, 12, 30–41.CrossRef
McCall, R. (2010). Critical conversations: Feedback as a stimulus to creativity in software design. Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments, 6(1), 11–37.MathSciNet
McCall, R., Fischer, G., & Morch, A. (1990). Supporting reflection-in-action in the Janus design environment. In The electronic design studio (pp. 247–259). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Mead, G. H., & Morris, C. W. (Eds.). (1934). Mind, self, and society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Moran, T. P., & Carroll, J. M. (Eds.). (1996). Design rationale: Concepts, techniques, and use. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Mørch, A. (1996). Evolving a generic application into a domain-oriented design environment. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 8(2), 63–90.
Mørch, A. (1997). Three levels of end-user tailoring: Customization, integration, and extension. In M. Kyng & L. Mathiassen (Eds.), Computers and design in context (pp. 51–76). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Mørch, A. I. (2003). Evolutionary growth and control in user tailorable systems. In N. V. Patel (Ed.), Adaptive evolutionary information systems (pp. 30–58). Hershey: IGI Publishing.
Mørch, A. I., & Skaanes, M. A. (2010). Design and use of an integrated work and learning system: Information seeking as critical function. In S. Ludvigsen, A. Lund, I. Rasmussen, & R. Säljö (Eds.), Learning across sites: New tools, infrastructures and practices (pp. 138–155). London: Routledge.
Mørch, A. I., Engen, B. K., & Åsand, H.-R. (2004a). The workplace as a learning laboratory: The winding road to e-learning in a Norwegian service company. In A. Clement et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of PDC’2004 (pp. 141–151). New York: ACM Press.
Mørch, A. I., Stevens, G., Won, M., Klann, M., Dittrich, Y., & Wulf, V. (2004b). Component-based technologies for end-user development. Communications or the ACM, 47(9), 59–62.CrossRef
Mørch, A. I., Nygård, K. A., & Ludvigsen, S. R. (2009). Adaptation and generalisation in software product development. In H. Daniels et al. (Eds.), Activity theory in practice: Promoting learning across boundaries (pp. 184–205). London: Routledge.
Norman, D. A. (2008). Workarounds and hacks: The leading edge of innovation. Interactions, 15(4), 47–48.CrossRef
Petroski, H. (1992). The evolution of useful things. New York: Vintage Books.
Rittel, H. (1972). On the planning crisis: Systems analysis of the first and second generations. Bedriftsøkonomen, 8, 390–396.
Schön, D. A. (1983). The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. New York: Basic Books.
Schön, D. (1992). Designing as a reflective conversation with the materials of a design situation. Knowledge-Based Systems, 5(1), 3–13.CrossRef
Seevinck, J., & Edmonds, E. (2008). Emergence and the art system ‘plus minus now’. Design Studies, 29(6), 541–555.CrossRef
Simon, H. A. (1996). The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Suchman, L. (1994). Working relations of technology production and use. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2(1–2), 21–39.CrossRef
Tomlinson, B. (2008). A call for pro-environmental conspicuous consumption in the online world. Interactions, 15(6), 42–45.CrossRef
Wittgenstein, L. (1967). Philosophical investigations (3rd ed.). Oxford: Basic Blackwell.
Metadata
Title
Predecessor Artifacts: Evolutionary Perspectives on a Reflective Conversation with Design Materials
Author
Anders I. Mørch
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer London
Book
Creativity and Rationale

Print ISBN: 978-1-4471-4110-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4471-4111-2

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4111-2_7