codesigners

Partner design developers

Codesigners are people who design something together, sharing responsibility for the creative and technical decisions that shape the final product.

The term appears in fields ranging from software development to fashion to architecture, wherever collaborative design work occurs.

The codesigners disagreed about the color scheme but eventually reached a compromise.

collaboration

partnership

Shared business arrangement

coordination · stakeholders · participants · contributors · facilitators · workshops · charettes · iteration · cross-functional · interdisciplinary

technology

software

Programs directing computer operations

annotation · commenting

roles

architects

Building design professionals

researchers · facilitators · clients · ethnographers

process

ideation

Forming mental concepts

wireframing · sketching · storyboarding · testing · refinement · synthesis

Opposites
role in design process

codesignersend users

Ultimate product recipients

clients · commissioners · stakeholders · critics · reviewers

collaboration vs. solo work

codesignersindividual contributor

Family

codesigner, codesigned

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