A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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DS-Viz: a systematic method for visualising design spaces
Much of design research is framed around the idea of “spaces”: problems, solutions, alternatives, concepts, knowledge and even design itself have all been seen as occu-pying spaces. Visualising design spaces, understanding their configuration and how designers explore and expand them, can yield valuable insights into design process-es. This paper reports a novel method for creating Design Space Visualisations, a method we call DS-Viz. This allows researchers to create 2D and 3D representations of design spaces from multidimensional descriptions of design ideas. Using data from a study of 30 participants completing a game-based design activity, we show how DS-Viz can be used to investigate designers’ behaviour during their design processes. By analysing two additional datasets from a more open ideation task and a more closed parametric design task, we also demonstrate how the method can be applied to different design contexts. We discuss how DS-Viz can support the creation of de-sign space visualisations enabling researchers to derive metrics related to designers’ explorations. Further to its potential use in research we highlight possible benefits of employing the visualisations created with DS-Viz to provide designers’ with feed-back in educational and professional contexts.
DS-Viz: a systematic method for visualising design spaces
Much of design research is framed around the idea of “spaces”: problems, solutions, alternatives, concepts, knowledge and even design itself have all been seen as occu-pying spaces. Visualising design spaces, understanding their configuration and how designers explore and expand them, can yield valuable insights into design process-es. This paper reports a novel method for creating Design Space Visualisations, a method we call DS-Viz. This allows researchers to create 2D and 3D representations of design spaces from multidimensional descriptions of design ideas. Using data from a study of 30 participants completing a game-based design activity, we show how DS-Viz can be used to investigate designers’ behaviour during their design processes. By analysing two additional datasets from a more open ideation task and a more closed parametric design task, we also demonstrate how the method can be applied to different design contexts. We discuss how DS-Viz can support the creation of de-sign space visualisations enabling researchers to derive metrics related to designers’ explorations. Further to its potential use in research we highlight possible benefits of employing the visualisations created with DS-Viz to provide designers’ with feed-back in educational and professional contexts.
DS-Viz: a systematic method for visualising design spaces
Paravizo, Esdras (author) / Crilly, Nathan (author)
2025-03-11
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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