Design and design research as contextual practice

An Approach to Transforming Requirements into Evaluable UI Design for Contextual Practice - A Design Science Research Perspective

“…In detail, recent literature reviews have indicated only a small amount of DSR dealing with the development of software-based artifacts [8]. This is underpinned by [10], who requested methods to enable IS researchers to become immersed into institutional environments. As our approach results in UI prototypes for evaluation in practical contexts, we are convinced that it is a valuable and engaging approach toward practice-oriented DSR for all stakeholders.…”

“…This is extremely helpful to simulate different approaches toward process support (see Background). To stress the argumentation of [10] once more (see Processes Modeling (1) and User Scenario Design (2)) and, thus, enable an evaluation in institutional environments, we designed the clickable UI prototype to integrate with mockups of SAP Product Lifecycle Costing (Figure 9) [35]. This software is a dedicated solution to support early product cost calculation (see Background) a n d i s o n e possible software solution available on the market that could be integrated with our UI prototype [12].…”

“…Further literature analyses have shown that the majority of the designed artifacts in DSR research are of type method or model [8] and can, therefore, only provide limited guidance for our practice-oriented approach to design potential solutions. In addition, the need to develop further research methods that immerse researchers in practice environments has been highlighted in the literature [10].…”

“…This is especially important since it has been revealed that DSR methods consider organizational intervention to be of lesser importance [17]. In contrast to this, [10] argued to further develop specific methods aiming at the co-constitutional character of user contexts and institutional environments.…”

“…According to [10], the process of designing a DSR artifact always has its point of departure in the current world. This is especially true for our practical problem of lacking IS support during early product cost optimization.…”