Investigating design thinking of a complex multidisciplinary design team in a new media context: Introduction

摘要

The 21st Century design context demands a dynamically networked team of multidisciplinary consultants who work both individually and as a part of a diverse team. Communication and collaboration across team members is hence not only important but inevitable. In this new environment design is practiced in a new media context that demands meaningful convergences between digital tools, underlying processes, and user behaviors. In the past few decades, studies on creative design process, have focused primarily on individual design situations striving to capture detailed protocols. In more recent studies, team design processes have gained greater attention. However, most of these studies are limited to a homogenous group of team members involving members within individual disciplines. This Special Section of Design Studies on Investigating Design Thinking of a Complex Multidisciplinary Design Team in a New Media Context presents a set of papers that provide a variety of insights into design thinking, creative behaviors and problem framing among a multidisciplinary design team in a new media context. It is a culmination of a five-year investigation involving researchers, industry partners, students and international experts on design research.