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DESRIST 2020: Designing for Digital Transformation. Co-Creating Services with Citizens and Industry pp 183–194Cite as

The Origins of Design Principles: Where do… they all come from?

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This essay reports the results of a reflective study to explore the question: where do… design principles come from? While a consensus is slowly emerging about the structure and content of design principles, the origins of design principles remain open to scholarly explorations and debates. Scholars have suggested, and speculated about several paths to identifying design principles, such as reflecting on the design efforts, looking to source theories, and even examining prior design products in an archaeological manner. We bring together these threads to develop a framework that consists of four dimensions, each an unsettled concern: (a) what can and should be the key influences on design principles, (b) when can and should design principles be generated, (c) who can and should identify design principles, and (d) how can and should design principles be documented? Two illustrative examples demonstrate how these dimensions may be used to identify, elaborate and defend the design principles as knowledge outcomes. We conclude by outlining some next steps for deeper, thoughtful investigations of the origins of design principles.

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  1. Bentley University, Waltham, USA

    Sandeep Purao

  2. University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Leona Chandra Kruse

  3. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Alexander Maedche

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Purao, S., Kruse, L.C., Maedche, A. (2020). The Origins of Design Principles: Where do… they all come from?. In: Hofmann, S., Müller, O., Rossi, M. (eds) Designing for Digital Transformation. Co-Creating Services with Citizens and Industry. DESRIST 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64823-7_17

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