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After having identified the existence and having conceptually modeled the nature of general design loupes in the past year’s project, this year’s focus lies on the systematic exploration of the individual designer’s inherent reflective loupe. Based on analyzing artifacts, surveying experts, conducting inductive and deductive conceptual framing rounds, and observing controlled explorative experiments we were able to: (1) show the existence of reflective loupes; (2) identify actual practices in use by designers; (3) use reflective practices as meaningful proxies for reflective loupes that are not directly observable; and (4) create, capture and analyze concrete reflective practices in the controlled experimental environment of a laboratory. We next proceed to build upon these results to deepen our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms of reflective design loupes.
These studies have identified digital artifacts that allow automatic collection and analysis through the d.store software currently under development at HPI in Potsdam Germany.
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This conceptual separation must be differentiated from Schon’s reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action (Schön, 1983).
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The authors would like to thank the Hasso Plattner Institute – Stanford Design Thinking Research Program for funding this project. A special thank you goes to the Enterprise Platform and Integration group headed by Prof. Plattner and Dr. Zeier, for a successful and very pleasant second-year collaboration. We also wish to express great appreciation to Mariel Lanas and Tiffany Lau, who contributed greatly to the execution of this research through the Stanford Undergraduate Research Initiative, and who were a joy to work with. We congratulate Dr. Philipp Skogstad, one of the leading researchers on the Stanford side of this project, who graduated in June 2009, and Dr. Matthias Uflacker, from the HPI side of the project, who graduated in January 2011.
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Currano, R., Steinert, M., Leifer, L. (2012). Design Loupes: A Bifocal Study to Improve the Management of Engineering Design Innovation by Co-evaluation of the Design Process and Information Sharing Activity. In: Plattner, H., Meinel, C., Leifer, L. (eds) Design Thinking Research. Understanding Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21643-5_6
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