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What Can Software Startuppers Learn from the Artistic Design Flow? Experiences, Reflections and Future Avenues

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2015)

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[Context and motivation] Startups are one of the most important economic drivers in today’s economy. The high failure rates have not discouraged communities, cities or universities from investing in startup ecosystems. We know that the great majority of startups today are software based. [Problem] It is equally well acknowledged that the early stage concept design and validation plays a key role in getting the first customers and ultimately attracting funding for the survival and possible success of a startup. Very little research, however, exists to support starttuppers in developing their early-stage ideas into concepts efficiently. [Results and contribution] This paper aims contributing to this gap by studying the artistic design flow and the tools utilized by architects, industrial designers and artists, and as a result proposes concrete ways to improve the current state-of-practice. However, it is argued that borrowing techniques, approaches and ideas will not be sufficient, and a change in software education culture is required.

J. Risku spent 9 years in Nokia Corporation in various design related roles where he also served as an innovation director. P. Abrahamsson has researched and taught software startups since 2011.

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    User Centric Design (UCD), Human Computer Interaction (HCI or CHI), and cognition psychology have a scientific approach to understand the human being and her needs, expectations and actions in contexts of systems, machines and daily Use Cases and task flows. UCD and HCI are typically developed by designers at e.g. mobile device and solution companies (Apple, Google, ex-Nokia).

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We want to thank the Software Startup Research Network and especially Dr. Anh Nguyen-Duc for his inspirational ideas on this work.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Juhani Risku & Pekka Abrahamsson

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  1. Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technol., Trondheim, Norway

    Pekka Abrahamsson

  2. Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Luis Corral

  3. University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Markku Oivo

  4. Free University of Bolzano, Bozen, Italy

    Barbara Russo

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Risku, J., Abrahamsson, P. (2015). What Can Software Startuppers Learn from the Artistic Design Flow? Experiences, Reflections and Future Avenues. In: Abrahamsson, P., Corral, L., Oivo, M., Russo, B. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9459. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26844-6_44

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