TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of design methods
T2 - A systematic review and assessment framework
AU - Cash, Philip
AU - Daalhuizen, Jaap
AU - Hekkert, Paul
PY - 2023/9/1
Y1 - 2023/9/1
N2 - The increasingly transdisciplinary context of design, where designers collaborate with other disciplinary and domain experts, means there is a growing need to evidence the effectiveness of design methods. We address this need in two ways. First, we propose a ‘chain of evidence’, from motivation to claims, operationalising this in a systematic assessment framework. Second, we systematically review current design method research. Our results reveal that while all links in the chain of evidence are reported across the literature and best practices can be identified, no individual paper either reports all links or consistently achieves best practice. Our framework and results demonstrate the need for standards of evidence in this area, with implications for design method research, development, education, and practice.
AB - The increasingly transdisciplinary context of design, where designers collaborate with other disciplinary and domain experts, means there is a growing need to evidence the effectiveness of design methods. We address this need in two ways. First, we propose a ‘chain of evidence’, from motivation to claims, operationalising this in a systematic assessment framework. Second, we systematically review current design method research. Our results reveal that while all links in the chain of evidence are reported across the literature and best practices can be identified, no individual paper either reports all links or consistently achieves best practice. Our framework and results demonstrate the need for standards of evidence in this area, with implications for design method research, development, education, and practice.
KW - design methodology
KW - design methods
KW - design research
KW - design tools
KW - systematic review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85162048341&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101204
DO - 10.1016/j.destud.2023.101204
M3 - Article
VL - 88
JO - Design Studies
JF - Design Studies
SN - 0142-694X
M1 - 101204
ER -