It is widely accepted that users should be involved in interactive systems development. However, involving users is often difficult and quite rare in software development organizations, especially in the context of product development, referring to the development of commercial software products or systems. This paper critically examines the position of user involvement in three software develo...

Bringing a new product to market involves both a creative ideation stage, and an execution stage. When time-to-market constraints are binding it is an important question how to divide limited time between the two stages and who should make this decision. We introduce a laboratory experiment that closely resembles this setting: it features a product development task with an open design space, a ...

Toyota Motor Corporation is arguably the most successful automotive company in the world, outperforming its US competitors on many fronts, including product quality and engineering productivity. Prior research on Toyota’s product development practice has revealed a number of striking differences with those of US automakers; however, from a design process standpoint, the differences are relative...

This paper discusses the methods used to conduct designer perception and design thinking in industrial ceramic product development. The designers themselves struggle clarify how they make association that immediately them be outcome why those decisions are rational because behind is not completely comprehended. research attempt identify development critical situations, empirically test process ...

Product development is collaborative, involving multi-disciplinary functions and heterogeneous tools. Teamwork is essential through seamless tool integration and better co-ordination of human activities. This paper proposes to use workflow management as a mechanism to facilitate the teamwork in a collaborative product development environment where remote Web-based Decision Support Systems (Tele...