Making Design Tools Like a Weaver: Four Rules

The Making of Design Rules: Implications for organization design

To be presented at the workshop "Organizing the search for technological innovation" Abstract This study analyzes the processes whereby organizations develop radical innovations in response to environmental transformations. It explores the complementary changes in organizational structures, practices and business strategies entailed by the implementation of such innovations. We build upon two s...

Context Weaver: Awareness and feedback in networked mobile crowdsourcing tools

Mobile crowdsourcing allows people to collect data using a large pool of participants. In this paper, we focus on mobile crowdsourcing for citizens to solve local issues in context. We argue that such crowdsourcing environments need to support exploration, a continuous, opportunistic, and multi-perspective process that existing crowd sensing systems cannot easily support. We have developed a sy...

Design and testing of tools for shared decision making.

Making Optimal Design Decisions for next Generation Dispensing Tools

The competitive environment faced by semiconductor equipment suppliers leaves no room for error when designing next generation tools. In addition, time to market, footprint, and equipment capabilities are all key to a successful product. At Cookson Electronics Equipment, tool designers used simulation to answer some difficult design questions, improve time to market, and lower development costs...

Making Patterns Better Design Tools: Requirements Analysis for a Family of Navigators for Design Pattern Catalogs

It is widely recognized that the software community could make patterns an even more effective tool in problem solving. However, a major obstacle is organizing the system of concepts embodied in patterns from a point of view of a designer faced with design decision-making: the need to navigate spaces of problems and solutions presented in each pattern and their catalogs and the need to track th...