An insight on designers’ sketching activities in traditional versus digital media
Date
2003-01Source Title
Design Studies
Print ISSN
0142-694X
Publisher
Pergamon Press
Volume
24
Issue
1
Pages
27 - 50
Language
English
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Abstract
This study aims at gaining an insight on designers' cognitive processes while sketching in digital vs traditional media. Empirical data on design processes have been obtained from protocol analyses of six interior designers solving an interior space-planning problem through media transition. In order to encode the design behavior, a coding scheme was utilized that allowed the inspection of both the design activity and the responses to media transition in terms of the primitive cognitive actions of designers. The analyses of the coding scheme constituents, which are segmentation and cognitive action categories, allowed a comparative study demonstrating the effect of the use of different media in the conceptual design phase. The results showed that traditional media had advantages over the digital media, such as supporting the perception of visual-spatial features, and organizational relations of the design, production of alternative solutions and better conception of the design problem. These results also suggested implications for computer aids in architectural design to support the conceptual phase of the design process.
Keywords
Conceptual designDesign activity
Design cognition
Protocol analysis
Sketching
Cognitive systems
Computer aided design
Computer graphics
Problem solving
Digital media
Architectural design
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http://hdl.handle.net/11693/24541Published Version (Please cite this version)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0142-694X(02)00032-7Collections
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