Evolution, Not Revolution: PD in the Toolbelt Era (1995)
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@MISC{Sumner95evolution,not,
author = {Tamara Sumner and Markus Stolze},
title = {Evolution, Not Revolution: PD in the Toolbelt Era},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
An emerging software development paradigm -- the toolbelt model -- offers new challenges and opportunities to the participatory design movement. A case study illustrates how professionals working in product design and development domains assemble and evolve collections, or "toolbelts," of off-the-shelf software tools to support their ongoing work practices. An analysis shows that while the toolbelt model is a politically empowering software development paradigm, domain workers still need help in: (1) identifying suitable tools and "gluing" them together to create a coherent system, (2) designing information representations, and (3) evolving better long-term work practices. We propose a new model of participatory design -- participatory evolutionary development -- as a potential technique for addressing these challenges. KEYWORDS: Compound Document Architectures, End user computing, End user modifiability, Design, Interoperability, Participatory Design, Software Development, Tailorabili...
