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When Information Does Not Add Up : = Cognitive Strategies for Navigating Complexity in Design.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	When Information Does Not Add Up :/
Reminder of title:	Cognitive Strategies for Navigating Complexity in Design.
Author:	Damen, Nicole B.
Description:	1 online resource (300 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-07, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-07B.
Subject:	Computer science. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798381430738

When Information Does Not Add Up : = Cognitive Strategies for Navigating Complexity in Design.
Damen, Nicole B.

When Information Does Not Add Up :Cognitive Strategies for Navigating Complexity in Design. - 1 online resource (300 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-07, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Design problems are notoriously uncertain, complex, and messy. To solve them, designers rely on prior knowledge and problem-specific information to generate solutions that meet desired outcomes. While more information is generally associated with better design decisions, an overabundance of information can also increase the risk of information overload and fixation, which can negatively affect the design outcome. Therefore, it is important for designers to identify and prioritize relevant information, an ability that is typically associated with more experienced or expert designers. Like experts in other domains, experienced designers codify their wealth of knowledge from experience into cognitive strategies: mental rules of thumb that intertwine designerly know-what and know-how into digestible chunks that can be used to provide guidance throughout the design process and communicate innovative and archival practices to others. Thus, the development and applications of appropriate strategies are central to design decision-making processes. However, much is still not known about the process that experts designers use to develop these strategies. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to identify the cognitive strategies that designers use to organize, prioritize, and transform design information into design artifacts. To investigate this, three goals and their corresponding studies are executed: 1) investigate the cognitive strategies that designers use to organize information through a qualitative protocol study (N=8) with a hypothetical design project, 2) investigate the cognitive strategies that hardware product designers use to prioritize design requirements related to sustainability through surveys (N=42) and follow-up interviews (N=12), and 3) investigate the cognitive strategies that emergency management designers use to manage design complexity in emergency (water) management through semi-structured interviews (N=15). The results of this work contribute to design decision-making literature by providing evidence for both bounded rationality and ecological rationality, with designers drawing from both context-independent and context-aware strategies respectively, in accordance with their environment to negotiate complexity and realize aspired outcomes.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798381430738Subjects--Topical Terms:

573171
Computer science.
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Design problemsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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