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Meeting the complex and unfamiliar: Lessons from design in the offshore industry
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-18, 12:54 authored by Luras, S, Lutzhoft, M, Sevaldson, BDesigners increasingly find themselves working in unfamiliar fields with high levels of complexity. One such field is the offshore industry. Through qualitative research interviews with eight industrial and interaction designers, we have investigated how designers experience designing for the Norwegian offshore industry, identified the challenges designers face, and examined strategies used for meeting the challenges they experience. The study shows that offshore-specific design projects are found to be complex at many levels, and the designers interviewed described a number of challenges that make it difficult to gain the insight needed to develop adequate designs. They employ different strategies for coping with these challenges. Systemic approaches, which have proven valuable when designing for other complex issues, are used to differing degrees by the designers interviewed. We propose that systemic approaches could help designers in this field get a better understanding of both the system they design for and the system they design within.
History
Publication title
International Journal of DesignVolume
9Pagination
141-154ISSN
1991-3761Department/School
Australian Maritime CollegePublisher
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology * Graduate Institute of DesignPlace of publication
TaiwanRights statement
Copyright 2015 Lurås, Lützhöft, & Sevaldson. Licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/Repository Status
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