Nelson and Stolterman's typology of design judgment operationalized for instructional design practice

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This framework conceptualizes design judgment as the ability to gain subconscious insights abstracted from experience and reflection in complex, indeterminate situations, and identifies multiple forms of judgment exercised across design situations. The article operationalizes the types for ID as a coding framework: "framing, deliberated off hand, default, core, instrumental, appearance, appreciative, connective, compositional, navigational, and quality." Table 1 defines each type with sample actions in the ID process, and the framework was extended as new actions were identified in interview data.

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• Nelson and Stolterman's typology of design judgment, operationalized for instructional design practice: This framework conceptualizes design judgment as the ability to gain subconscious insights abstracted from experience and reflection in complex, indeterminate situations, and identifies multiple forms of judgment exercised across design situations. The article operationalizes the types for ID as a coding framework: "framing, deliberated off hand, default, core, instrumental, appearance, appreciative, connective, compositional, navigational, and quality." Table 1 defines each type with sample actions in the ID process, and the framework was extended as new actions were identified in interview data. (Muruvvet Demiral-Uzan (2024))

Claims

• Instructional design students make multiple design judgments concurrently and constantly, with different judgment types clustered within single design moments [+M]

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Key Sources

• Muruvvet Demiral-Uzan, Elizabeth Boling. (2024). Instructional design students’ design judgment development. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-024-10361-1

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description	This framework conceptualizes design judgment as the ability to gain subconscious insights abstracted from experience and reflection in complex, indeterminate situations, and identifies multiple forms of judgment exercised across design situations.
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