Anthropologists and Designers Co-Designing the Future

Understanding Designers Designing for Understanding

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Designing future products: what difficulties do designers encounter and how can their creative process be supported?

To remain competitive, companies must regularly offer new products to consumers. A major challenge for designers is therefore to come up with design solutions and define products that are both new and adapted to future users and usages. Although classic methods and ergonomic recommendations are useful in most run-of-the-mill design contexts, they are of limited benefit when the design situation...

Designing a Designers' Decision Aiding System (DDAS)

Ax approach for designing and developing decision aiding systems is presented through the design and definition of the architecture of a system, corresponding to a real problem: that of providing aid to designers The purpose of the decision aid is to provide assistance to computer system designers tackling interface usability problems and needing to know which modelling techniques out of an arr...

Designing the Future

The Futures Lab was founded within the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory in the fall of 1994. The goal of the lab is develop new technology and systems to support collab-orative science. In order to meet this goal, the lab is organized around three research areas: advanced networking, multimedia, and virtual environments. The Argonne Computing and Communic...

Designing the Future