A Tool Proposal for Recommending Design Thinking Techniques in Software Development
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https://doi.org/10.5753/jserd.2021.1931Keywords:
Design Thinking, Technique, Recommendation System, Collaborative Tool, Experimental StudyAbstract
Design Thinking (DT) has been incorporated into software processes by teams from startups to large companies, used in problem exploration fostering innovative solutions, and integrated into agile methods to satisfy the real stakeholders' needs. DT places the customer needs up-front and helps to empathize with users, examining their behaviors, and producing outcomes focused on users' demand. A set of techniques, like personas and user journey, can be used to support this human-centered approach. Selecting which technique to use might be challenging since factors such as the application scenario, stakeholder engagement level and previous knowledge of the problem-to-be-solved may vary from case to case. In our original paper we presented a DT session conducted to better understand the need for a recommendation tool, followed by a requirements elicitation step in which we defined how the tool should work, and an early evaluation of the initial tool low-fidelity prototypes. In this extension article we present 2 further steps we performed in the tool's definition process, a requirements refining step through high-level fidelity prototypes, and a requirements validation step through a questionnaire-based feedback collection with professionals who have experience on the use of DT in software development. Our results show that our proposal offers an useful and easy to use tool to recommend DT techniques with the potential to support those professionals who apply DT in requirements engineering by suggesting the most appropriate techniques according to the established context.
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