Design effort is a key resource for product design projects. Environments where design effort is scarce, and therefore valuable, include hackathons and other time-limited design challenges. Predicting design effort needs is key to successful project planning; therefore, understanding design effort-influencing factors (objective considerations that are universally accepted to exert influence on a subject, that is, types of phenomena, constraints, characteristics, or stimulus) will aid in planning success, offering an improved organizational understanding of product design, characterizing the design space and providing a perspective to assess project briefs from the outset. This paper presents the Collaborative Factor Identification for Design Effort (CoFIDE) Method based on Hird's (2012) method for developing resource forecasting tools for new product development teams. CoFIDE enables the collection of novel data of, and insight into, the collaborative understanding and perceptions of the most influential factors of design effort levels in design projects and how their behavior changes over the course of design projects. CoFIDE also enables design teams, hackathon teams, and makerspace collaborators to characterize their creative spaces, to quickly enable mutual understanding, without the need for complex software and large bodies of past project data. This insight offers design teams, hackathon teams, and makerspace collaborators opportunities to capitalize on positive influences while minimizing negative influences. This paper demonstrates the use of CoFIDE through a case study with a UK-based product design agency, which enabled the design team to identify and model the behavior of four influential factors.

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什么要花这么长时间？一种收集设计师洞察力的协作方法，以了解哪些因素会增加项目中的设计工作水平

设计工作是产品设计项目的关键资源。设计工作稀缺并因此很有价值的环境包括黑客马拉松和其他有时间限制的设计挑战。预测设计工作需求是成功项目规划的关键；因此，了解设计努力影响因素（普遍接受的对主题产生影响的客观考虑因素，即现象、约束、特征或刺激的类型）将有助于规划成功，提供对产品设计的更好的组织理解，表征设计空间并提供从一开始就评估项目简介的视角。本文介绍了基于 Hird' 的设计努力的协同因素识别 (CoFIDE) 方法 s (2012) 为新产品开发团队开发资源预测工具的方法。CoFIDE 能够收集新颖的数据，并深入了解对设计项目中设计工作水平的最有影响因素的协作理解和感知，以及它们的行为在设计项目过程中如何变化。CoFIDE 还使设计团队、黑客马拉松团队和创客空间合作者能够表征他们的创意空间，从而快速实现相互理解，而无需复杂的软件和大量过去的项目数据。这种洞察力为设计团队、黑客马拉松团队和创客空间合作者提供了利用积极影响的机会，同时最大限度地减少负面影响。本文通过与一家英国产品设计机构的案例研究展示了 CoFIDE 的使用，