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Information technology design is by no means simple. Most real-world problems are not simple and they often have no correct solution. The challenges that everyday designers’ face is to handle trade-offs. It is the conscious choice among many alternatives each of which places constraints on utility and resources. As Mitch Kapor suggests above, a designer stands with one foot in the technology and one foot in the domain of human concerns, and these two worlds are not easily commensurable (Winograd 1996).
What is design? It’s where you stand with a foot in two worlds – the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes – and you try to bring the two together.
– (Mitch Kapor, A Software Design Manifesto, 1990).
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Hevner, A., Chatterjee, S. (2010). People and Design. In: Design Research in Information Systems. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 22. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5653-8_7
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