A designerly methodology for software development

Title

A designerly methodology for software development

 Author

Du Bois, E.

Contributor

Horvath, I. (promotor)

Faculty

Industrial Design Engineering

 Department

Design Engineering

 Date

2013-10-24

 Abstract

This PhD researches the domain of industrial design engineering starting from the strong technological evolutions and changing economic, social and ecological needs. Our current products are not only build from hardware components, but are a complex mix of hardware, software and services (in different proportions). This complexity is needed to be able to respond to our continuously evolving needs. In this PhD research, we focus on the software that is part of our products, because we do not only use Facebook and email on our mobile phone, but also our car and washing machine need software to operate. During the design of these software parts, it is complex to test and discuss the design with all stakeholders at different moments. Nevertheless these discussions enable to optimize the software before programming starts. This PhD research focusses on the development of a methodology to support designers in the development of interactive software, involving all stakeholders (different types of users, customers, suppliers, experts …). The methodology is based on the principles of hardware consumer product development and supports the designers in the critical early phases of the development process. During this process, the aim is to collect as many opinions, ideas and suggestions from all different stakeholders about the different prototypes. These prototypes (starting from an abstract prototype towards a testable) are used in each phase of the design process to discuss and co-develop the software in order to achieve products that qualitatively better fulfill the stakeholders needs.

 Subject

software development
industrial design engineering
prototyping
stakeholder involvement
human-centered design
methodology
software
complex systems

 To reference this document use:

https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:6f8f9802-f174-4be9-b51e-741315add1be

 Publisher

VSSD

 ISBN

9789065623348

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

doctoral thesis

 Rights

(c) 2013 Du Bois , E.
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