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This working paper describes an evolving design rationale model intended to capture the design process of a physical artefact. The model is intended to be useful for supporting design and redesign, for enhancing communication amongst designers and design teams, and for various later life-cycle activities such as creating and maintaining product configuration models for configuration design, or analysing the designed artefact during production engineering. Moreover, the model should be useful for assessing the completeness, validity, and consistency of the design process itself for design process improvement activities.
The model essentially views design as a web of interdependent decisions chosen from a collection of alternative designs according to some criteria. The paper describes the basic ideas of the model, and demonstrates its feasibility with a “lo-fi prototype”. Issues and topics of future work are also discussed.
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Lahti, A., Mäntylä, M., Ranta, M. (1997). Capturing and Deploying Design Decisions. In: Pratt, M.J., Sriram, R.D., Wozny, M.J. (eds) Product Modeling for Computer Integrated Design and Manufacture. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35187-2_1
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