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In parallel design, several interface designers work independently on a design problem, and produce a set of ideas that can be studied further. In a panel at INTERCHI’93 three expert designers presented their first designs of a system for selecting and playing songs from a remote CD database. We have worked on the same exercise with novice designers. We show that also inexperienced interface designers can produce designs with many features worth investigating further. By increasing the number of novice designers also the number of new design ideas increases, and (in this exercise) finally exceeds the number of ideas produced by expert designers.
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Ovaska, S., Räihä, KJ. (1995). How Many Novices Does it Take to Match Three Expert Designers? Lessons from an Exercise in Parallel Design. In: Nordby, K., Helmersen, P., Gilmore, D.J., Arnesen, S.A. (eds) Human—Computer Interaction. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2896-4_11
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