Discovering the Meanings of Design in IS: Reviews and Future Directions

摘要

The purpose of this study is to identify the meanings of design to Information Systems (IS) scholars as revealed in their research. We conducted an extensive review of IS research papers from 1970 to 2007 that are related to design research broadly construed and analyzed them to reveal the overview of their scope and patterns using two approaches. The first approach locates existing research in a design space based on attention to design artifacts versus design processes, and their interests in the analytic or the synthetic aspect of design cognition. The second approach locates existing research in a design space based on the level of organization system from local to global that design affects, and the temporal state (past, present, future) that it considers. Finally, this study draws upon where the lack of design research in IS remains as future research opportunities.