working towards an open source design approach for the development of collaborative design projects
At its core the act of designing begins with an idea that develops over time to shape the creation of a product or service that meets a distinct purpose. Characteristically, a select group of designers, key stakeholders and possibly end-users of a product work together to facilitate the design process. However, if understood with respect to the development of an open source project, open design projects can potentially involve any number of global participants that contribute to the online development of a product's voluntary advancement. In this paper I consider if the concept of open source development can be extended to collaborative interaction design practices. In doing so, I argue that effective open design processes for designing interactive experiences need to be developed and propose a way in which online communication tools and rationale instances can be used to share the iterative direction of open design decisions.
open design open source development rationale instances design decisions