Information and designers

Can Mechanism Designers Exploit Buyers’ Market Information

Competing mechanism games can have many equilibrium outcomes when mechanism designers can use mechanisms which ask agents to report deviations. Existing folk theorems assume agents have perfect information about designers’ mechanisms, that they can costlessly convey very complex messages, and that they use weakly dominated strategies. This paper addresses two questions. The first is whether the...

Towards Information Exploration Support for Engineering Designers

many heterogeneous sources of information. This is a time consuming and difficult task. This fact combined with the rapidly emerging information super highways (internet, WWW, etc.) makes it highly relevant to discuss what characterizes engineering designers information need and usage, and what kind of computer-based support of exploration activities should be provided. These are the main quest...

Providing Information about Older and Disabled Users to Designers

In order to make a real difference to the products and services available to older people, we need to influence and equip those who design these products in practice. In particular, these designers need information about the end users. This paper discusses different formats that can be used to provide this information, such as personas, detailed disability information, simulations and contact w...

Towards a model of how designers mentally categorise design information

This study aims to explore how designers mentally categorise design information during the early sketching performed in the generative phase. An action research approach is particularly appropriate for identifying the various sorts of design information and the cognitive operations involved in this phase. Thus, we conducted a protocol study with eight product designers based on a descriptive mo...

Submission : Different Levels of Information Systems Designers ’ Conceptualisations of Users