In search of a cure for a psychosis in information systems design: Co-created Design and Metaphorical Appreciation

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Abstract

We postulate that a disconnect between stakeholders and designers, often rooted in an understandable preoccupation with technical rationality, limits how design research is conceptualized in the design science research community. We posit co-creation as a way to overcome this limitation that engages reflective design practice fostering a shared understanding of value among the designers/developers, users, analysts and others. Thus, co-creation is an essential ingredient for design satisfaction in many design endeavors. We proffer a theoretical foundation for envisioning design success as an artefact that realizes co-created conceptual metaphors compositing the objective and subjective qualities shaping the stakeholders’ appreciative systems. This paper positions and advocates for a critical perspective on designer transcendence where design choices and actions are centered on a shared, but evolving, composite understanding of value and quality – satisfaction. Successful co-creative design emancipates users from concern for unnecessary technically rational aspects of artefact design. Further we propose a framework, grounded in semiotics, to hone and revitalize designer transcendence with a design emphasis on efficient and ideally frictionless interfaces – conceptual metaphors – to reduce asymmetry among stakeholder concerns.

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Waguespack, L. J., Babb, J. S., & Yates, D. J. (2018). In search of a cure for a psychosis in information systems design: Co-created Design and Metaphorical Appreciation. In Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Vol. 2018-January, pp. 4443–4452). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2018.561

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