Highlights•Novices' communication patterns with external audiences is explored.•Move
analysis and Markov modeling identifies six unique rhetorical moves used by novices.•The …

This paper provides an overview and appraisal of the International Design Engineering
Annual (IDEA) challenge-a virtually hosted design hackathon run with the aim of generating …

The act of prototyping is a key element of the design process. However, capturing
information on how prototypes evolve and influence one another is a complex problem. This …

The International Design Engineering Annual (IDEA) Challenge is a virtually hosted
hackathon for Engineering Design researchers with aims of: i) generating open access …

Designers routinely create informal “thinking” sketches to explore a design space,“talking”
sketches to communicate design ideas during the early phases of the design process, and …

Prototyping is an essential activity in product development, but novice designers lack
awareness and purpose when they prototype. To foster prototyping mindsets in novice …

Computer-aided design (CAD) is a standard design tool used in engineering practice and by
students. CAD has become increasingly analytic and inventive in incorporating artificial …

Advancements in prototyping knowledge capture have resulted in several graph-based
schemas where nodes represent prototyping activities and individuals, and edges represent …

Highlights•Novel metrics used assess the effect of prototypes on design knowledge across
time.•Utility of metrics demonstrated to capture fine-grain individual and team data.•Results …

As makerspaces and learning factories begin to shift towards digitally enabled
environments, it is critical that we understand the effect of this shift on designers and …