I was musing about the differences between these three concepts. They are not explained clearly in any resource I could find (although many people...
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Improvising Design
Why is design improvisational? We talk about design as if it were fixed: as if there were one best way to design everything. We celebrate...
April 14, 2015
The Co-Design of Business & IT Systems
Business analysts, change managers, and IT systems analysts are in a no-win situation. They are expected to understand myriad interpretations of the business strategy,...
December 7, 2014
Design Methods as Performative Objects
Brown and Duguid’s (2001) concept of a “network of practice” has been niggling away at my consciousness. The idea is that a collection of...
July 10, 2014
Responsive Web Design
I manage the website for an Animal Rescue shelter. I have been struggling with the design of the site for some time now, as...
March 12, 2014
Using Actor-Network Theory
A recent emphasis on sociomateriality appears to have entered the IS literature because of discussions by Orlikowski (2010) and the excellent empirical study of...
September 23, 2013
Social Media Platforms For Online Learning
Recently, I have been using a new social media platform to run one of my classes. The idea was, that as we are studying...
January 14, 2012
Organizational Coordination
I have been working for a while on comparing the results from some very complex research studies of collaborative design in groups that span...
February 25, 2011
The Potential of Interaction Design
While browsing and working on a recent paper, I mused on the missed opportunity of interaction design. Reading Terry Winograd’s (1997) From Computing Machinery...
August 5, 2010
Thank you, NSF!
I just filed the final project report for my Career Award yesterday, so I’d like to give my personal thanks to the good folks...
May 12, 2010