MyDesignProcess
MyDesignProcess is a tool supporting design researchers in managing, guiding, and documenting the design process. As a design researcher you learn from your reflections, share parts of your work with others, and rigorously prepare your material for publication in high-quality outlets.
A rich body of knowledge on approaches, methods, and frameworks supports researchers in conducting research projects. While methodological guidance is abundant, there is little support and guidance for documenting and effectively managing research processes. We argue that tool support for researchers should enable researchers and teams of researchers to structure, document, maintain, and present DSR, including the resulting design knowledge and artifacts. Such tool support can increase research projects' traceability, collaboration, and quality.
Getting Started
After registering a new user, you can log in, create your first project, and start using MyDesingProcess. After clicking on the button "New Project" you can provide a title and description of the new project. You can change both, the title and description, at any time by clicking on the "Edit Project" button on the right side in the action box.
You can create and manage as many projects as you want on MyDesignProcess. There are no limitations or restrictions regarding the number of projects, actions, and collaborators.
Project Actions
When you click on a project there are several actions available regarding the selected project. The options are available in the action box on the right side of the screen.
The title and description of the project can be edited by clicking on the "Edit Project" button. You can add new empty activities or add one or more activities from an existing process description, for instance, activities from a literature review.
Activities
An activity description should contain all relevant information about the conducted activity. This includes any relevant data or references to the data and the according design decisions. You can also add images to the activity description by drag&drop or uploading files in the attachment field.
Activities can have specific types if you want to label certain activities. The activity icon will change accordingly to the activity type. Furthermore, a start and/or end date can be specified for activities. The progress slider allows for indicating the state of the activity and the amount of the workload that is already done.
