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Co-creation Patterns between Designers and Users in the Design Process: A View of Reflexivity

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Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice (DESRIST 2014)

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In this paper, we empirically explore designer-user co-creation patterns in the design innovation process with a view of design reflexivity. This paper entails two propositions. First, co-creation between designers and users function as the core action in discovering and validating complex design information environments. Second, co-creation between designers and users can be identified by two reflexivity concepts: design reflexivity and role reflexivity. With these two propositions on designer-user co-creation, we ask the following research questions: (1) what do co-creation between designers and users characterize distinctive patterns in the design process? (2) How do designer-user co-creation patterns change a design routine in a design process? As an empirical approach, this study analyzed forty IT & design innovation project narratives and synthesized five designer-user co-creation patterns (two design reflexivity and three role reflexivity). The significance of this study is to open the importance of co-creation on the designer-user interaction, and it seeks to empirically explore the patterns of co-creation and suggests a theoretical / practical guideline for researchers and practitioners in the community of design process.

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    Jaehyun Park

  2. Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea

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Park, J., Park, HA. (2014). Co-creation Patterns between Designers and Users in the Design Process: A View of Reflexivity. In: Tremblay, M.C., VanderMeer, D., Rothenberger, M., Gupta, A., Yoon, V. (eds) Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice. DESRIST 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8463. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06701-8_3

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