A Value-Centered Approach for Unique and Novel Software Applications

摘要

It is difficult to make accurate predictions about what delivers value for users, especially in innovative contexts. The challenge lies in the lack of understanding of the problem and solution space. Design Thinking helps here with its converging and diverging thinking in which different solutions are tried out in practice and compared with each other. Design thinking becomes challenging when using software as a medium, since software development is usually not designed to implement several alternatives simultaneously. Therefore, we present in this paper the outline to an approach how this can be realized with software which we call Insight Centric Design & Development (ICeDD). The special aspect of ICeDD is the combination of Design Thinking as a front -end technique with non-software and the conducting of field experiments with several software alternatives. The idea behind ICeDD has been developed itera-tively and incrementally by acting in real-world contexts, observing the effects and reflect on them with the help of a literature research.