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Design Pattern as a Bridge Between Problem-Space and Solution-Space

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Designing novel technologies provide challenges to developers. To support developers in designing these technologies, design knowledge must be codified and made applicable for the future. In systems development, design patterns provide proven solutions to solving recurring problems. They contain templates for describing design information, often in tabular form, and are established tools for making complex knowledge accessible and applicable. Design patterns play a critical role in both practice and research in finding potential solutions. For researchers, patterns can provide a method for codifying design knowledge for future research. For practitioners, design patterns provide established solutions to recurring problems. By applying them in a particular context, the pattern represents elements of both the problem-space and the solution-space, providing an opportunity to bridge the gap between the two spaces. Due to the abstraction of design patterns, they can be used for different application scenarios. The preparation of the design knowledge in the design pattern is a critical step to support the user in the best possible way, that determines the usefulness of the pattern.

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  1. Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Jan Marco Leimeister & Andreas Janson

  2. Information Systems, Interdisciplinary Research Center for IS Design (ITeG), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Jan Marco Leimeister & Ernestine Dickhaut

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Leimeister, J.M., Dickhaut, E., Janson, A. (2021). Design Pattern as a Bridge Between Problem-Space and Solution-Space. In: Aier, S., Rohner, P., Schelp, J. (eds) Engineering the Transformation of the Enterprise. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84655-8_9

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