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Accommodating disagreement: A study of effective design collaboration

This peer-reviewed article was produced as a result of a rare, fully-funded invitation to a UK academic to take part in an National Science Foundation (USA) funded research project into how professional software designers work. This brought together senior figures from the field of software engineering with researchers from the design research community, including McDonnell, who have a longer tradition and experience of studying design processes. The aim was to enhance understanding of how software is designed. As a basis for their analyses, contributors were supplied with video recordings of software engineers collaborating to solve a design problem (under laboratory conditions). The material gave McDonnell the opportunity to further her work on how designers collaborate effectively.

McDonnell’s contribution was selected for publication in Design Studies, the leading journal in its field; it is republished in Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design (Chapman and Hall / CRC Press).