A dialogue about experiences of collaboration in design practice

OVERVIEW: The mass digital adoption and rapid industry transformation have increased the number of things that need to be designed. In addition, Lean and Agile development demands faster ways to reflect and foresee impact. Designers are tackling more complex challenges, contexts, and systems. To assess these design challenges and decentralize the creative contribution, designers seek distributed knowledge, diverse and systemic thinking, adopting various collaborative practices, and more inclusive and holistic approaches to perform their work. The following sub-study supports the assessment of collaboration in Design in the broader term, contributing to the overall PhD study that aims to develop a collaborative and systemic method and toolkit to design technological and responsible service solutions. It shows a thematic analysis of a virtual focus group discussion where four designers discuss the past, present, and future collaboration in and through Design.