Artifacts – A Human-Centered Framework for Growing Ideas

We defined design goals which describe how the different aspects of the framework should be designed in order to support creativity as much as possible. Designed for Long Term Use: Most ideas don’t happen in an instant. They start as hunches and need to be grown and nurtured. This is a process that takes time. Encouraging Speculation: Trying out many things increases the chance of finding the right thing. Most ideas don’t appear finished, continuously iterating them in an evolutionary style is necessary to improve their quality. Creating and Retrieving in One Place: Creating, editing, organizing and retrieving should happen in one place to lower the friction of the creative process. Creating Artifacts from Knowledge Quick: Users should collect as much of their knowledge as possible in the form of information. To foster this the creation of artifacts needs to be quick and seamless. Appropriate: To collect as much of the knowledge as possible the form of the information has to be appropr

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• Flora Guo