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CONVERSATION: Roughing Up the Edges: Why Intentional Incompleteness Might Create Better Designs
Openly available tools, such as free online-templates, 3D printed models, or generative AI, can be applied at any point in the design process by designers and clients alike. While not perfect, these tools can still produce prototypes that are often indistinguishable from ‘finished’ or ‘polished’ artifacts. Whether one hails these tools as time-savers or condemns them as job-killers, their polished nature fundamentally changes the way clients and users experience the design process, and can have profound effects on the type of feedback designers receive. This conversation aims to understand the role of ‘incompleteness’ in the design process better (Hvidsten, 2019; Garud et al., 2008) and how designers might use it strategically for different types of participation, feedback, and critique. We ask the following sub-questions: RQ1) How is incompleteness manifested in prototypes/design proposals, and how does it affect the activities of stakeholders and other testers and evaluators? RQ2) How do we leverage incompleteness to highlight or hide aspects of a design to invite the kinds of feedback we need? RQ3) Does designing for incompleteness change the roles, goals, or techniques of the designer? | ||
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Roughing up the edges: Why intentional incompleteness might create better designs 1Kristiania University of Applied Technology, Oslo, Norway; 2Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA | ||
