Actor-Based Signposting: A social perspective on modelling design processes

As a central issue in design research, there currently is no generic and overarching model than can satisfy common features on various design processes (DPs). The objective of providing actionable DP modelling frameworks that can be of practical use to design managers provided us to propose Actor-Based Signposting (ABS) as an extension of this established process modelling framework, and as a novel and integrated viewpoint on modelling DPs with a specific attention being cast on understanding the behaviour of actors involved in DP, along with their mutual influences as a source of uncertainty.