Designers' Value Judgment in Design Meetings

This paper presents an empirical study, which was conducted in order to identify how designers deliver value in designing across different disciplines. Data collected during periods of observation provide insight into the characteristics and behavior of designers sharing the same working environment in three design disciplines, established in Graphic design, Architecture and Engineering. The present study reports findings on how designers’ deliver value in collaborative meetings. The study is based on the mapping and analysis of instances of value judgment during the meetings for the design of an exhibition, a train interface and a robot. Results show similarities but also differences on the iteration and interdependency of the instances of value judgment across the three cases. We integrated the results by developing an inductive procedure of interaction during instances of value judgment in decision-making in design meetings.