An exploration of the concept of design in information systems

McKay, Judy; Marshall, Peter; Heath, Greg

doi:10.22459/isf.12.2010.05

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“…The components are user centredness, knowledge sharing, situation-specific customisation, reduced model orientation, and practice based secondary design abilities. Our view is similar to the view of McKay et al (2008) in that it suggests the potential use of a human centred perspective in design to expand contextual knowledge in a design artifact. Based on a theoretical analysis McKay et al (2008) identify various viewpoints of design such as design as product, design as process or action, design as intention, design as planning including modelling, representation and method, design as communication, design as user experience, design as a value, design as professional practice and design as service.…”

Section: Components Of the "Ensemble" Artifactsupporting

confidence: 62%

“…Our view is similar to the view of McKay et al (2008) in that it suggests the potential use of a human centred perspective in design to expand contextual knowledge in a design artifact. Based on a theoretical analysis McKay et al (2008) identify various viewpoints of design such as design as product, design as process or action, design as intention, design as planning including modelling, representation and method, design as communication, design as user experience, design as a value, design as professional practice and design as service. Our study is different in that our case analysis is focused on the design perspectives around users and their situation of use to illustrate some key components of design in particular to DSS design.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…For example Cao et al (2006) conceptualised design knowledge as a technology-centred design that concerns itself with technical innovation in the IT artifact design. However, McKay and Marshall (2007) and McKay et al (2008) argued that this type of conceptualization excludes the surroundings of the design artifact. It shows a lack of understanding about IS artifacts design in an organizational context, where there are many human and social components.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The analysis of design research knowledge is mainly based on 1) conceptualization of the design research theory (Arnott and Pervan, 2012;McKay and Marshall, 2007;McKay, Marshall and Heath, 2008;Gregor and Jones, 2007); 2) theory building for enhancing our understanding of design science methodology (Hevner et al, 2004;Iivari, 2007;Venable, 2006) and 3) adaption of design research in IS (Purao and Storey, 2008;Botts, Schooley and Horan, 2008;Muntermann, 2009). The guidelines and methods of design research address the requirements of innovative design development, solution modelling or problem solving, and the evaluation of design (Hevner et al 2004;Carlsson, 2006;McKay and Marshall, 2007).…”

Section: Designation Of '(Is) Design Research' Vs '(Is) Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ensemble Artifact Design For Context Sensitive Decision Support

Miah

Gammack

2014

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Although an improvement of design knowledge is an essential goal of design research, current design research predominantly focuses on knowledge concerning the IT artifact (tool) design process, rather than a more holistic understanding encompassing the dynamic usage contexts of a technological artifact. Conceptualising a design in context as an "ensemble artifact" (Sein et al., 2011) provides the basis for a more rigorous treatment. This paper describes an IS artifact design framework that has been generated from the development of several practitioner-oriented decision support systems (DSS) in which contextual aspects relevant to practitioners' decision making are considered as integral design themes. We describe five key dimensions of an ensemble artifact design and show their value in designing practitioner-oriented DSS. The features are user centredness, knowledge sharing, situation-specific customisation, reduced model orientation, and practice based secondary design abilities. It is argued that this understanding can contribute to design research knowledge more effectively both to develop dynamic DSS, and by its extensibility to other artifact designs.

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Section: Components Of the "Ensemble" Artifactsupporting

confidence: 62%

Section: Components Of the "Ensemble" Artifactsupporting

confidence: 62%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Designation Of '(Is) Design Research' Vs '(Is) Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ensemble Artifact Design For Context Sensitive Decision Support

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Gammack

2014

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“…In a similar conceptual discussion, McKay, Marshall and Heath (2008) indicate multiple views of artefact design using aspects of the research outlined by Iivari (2007) and Carlsson (2006). Both approaches imply that IS design within the socio-technical context requires a broad approach as there are various significant components.…”

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A Development-Oriented IS Evaluation Approach: Case Demonstration for DSS

Miah

Debuse

Kerr

2012

AJIS

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As a subset of the Information systems (IS) discipline, Decision Support Systems (DSS) development research needs a broader conceptual lens in order to evaluate design qualities specific to DSS. This paper presents a development-oriented approach for evaluating DSS applications. Based on a design science mental model proposed by Peffers, Tuunanen, Rothenberger and Chatterjeea (2008), our study outlines a new application area of this conceptual approach through a case demonstration of DSS development through various design checkpoints. To assess the proposed developmentoriented evaluation strategy the paper also describes a qualitative investigation that has been undertaken to assess the conceptual approach with target industry DSS users and developers. The findings suggest that this strategy is of use for improving the overall design qualities in every phase of DSS development, and could be useful for evaluating DSS design with target users and DSS designers within a socio-technical design context.

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Reframed Contexts: Design Thinking for Agile User Experience Design

Adikari

McDonald

Campbell

2013

Design, User Experience, and Usability. Design Philosophy, Methods, and Tools

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The effectiveness of user experience design is dependent on many factors including complete and accurate contextual information, design approaches, and methods followed. The recent HCI literature clearly shows that there is a growing research interest on integration of User Experience (UX) design and agile software development. A framework based on design thinking is proposed that enhances the current user experience design by integration of three design approaches -design thinking, designing for user experience and agile software development. These three different design approaches of the framework complement each other to benefit effective derivation of contextual requirements that include functionality of the system as well as aspects of total user experience based on the shared understanding gained from stakeholders in the context. Implications of each design approach on stakeholders and the context are discussed in detail to show the significance and value of the proposed framework on the whole design and design process. It is expected that the proposed framework is capable of enhancing the design quality and user experience of products, systems, and services created through agile software development approaches.

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An exploration of the concept of design in information systems

Cited by 5 publications

References 32 publications

Ensemble Artifact Design For Context Sensitive Decision Support

Ensemble Artifact Design For Context Sensitive Decision Support

A Development-Oriented IS Evaluation Approach: Case Demonstration for DSS

Reframed Contexts: Design Thinking for Agile User Experience Design

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