I spend most of every day carrying out my research on my computer, so I’ve taken the time to accumulate a set of digital tools that help to streamline my processes and save me a ton of time. I can’t imagine working without a lot of these tools now!
Can physical products be designed and developed by teams working together virtually, from home? At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, one-third of the employed American workforce worked from home. Despite this, only 3% of those were from the manufacturing sector.
Is it possible to track, and in the future, guide, a design team’s activities by analyzing their digital communication? That was the question I attempted to answer in the first publication of my PhD, with the specific aim of identifying convergence on a design idea.