International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 30-November 02, 1989 / Town & Country Hotel & Convention Center, San Diego, California / Computer Sciences Corporation, Realtime Data Systems Center has developed, integrated, tested, and delivered several large telemetry systems to various ranges over the past eight years. One key to the success of these systems has been the ability to build on a software base to meet unique range processing requirements for aircraft, missiles, and related weapons systems. Reusable software means reduced procurement and life cycle costs. The ability to successfully reuse software for new systems with new requirements lies not only in the fundamentals of modular system design, but in the ability of the people to comprehend the design, and adapt the software to new requirements. As advanced telemetry processing needs meet reduced budgets, the successful systems integrator will be relying more and more on an ability to adapt existing systems to meet new challenges.

In a design agency, where time is of essence, it is interesting to see how documentation and reflection, of the design process can be captured by a digital tool with the aim to reuse design. In this thesis, such a tool was deployed at the design agency Apegroup. The main question this study investigates, is the challenge and benefit of a tool that enhances documentation, reflection, and reusability of a design process. The tool was primary inspired by the Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Documenting Design Process area. Interviews, ideation, prototyping, coding, testing and evaluation is some of the activities that were conducted. The results revealed that different design roles values different elements during the design process, which makes it challenging to develop a tool that has value for all. Documentation of activities in the tool was mainly beneficial for the role design director and the value of gathering all internal information about the design process. Reflection of activities in the tool made some of the designers reflect more, but it was challenging to engage all designers. Working with reusability was challenging due to the tool’s need of being used continuously. In the design agency context, the most challenging aspect was time, and competing with the designers’ perceived benefit. / I design agenturer där tid är av ytterst värde, är det intressant att se hur dokumentation och reflektion av design processen kan fångas av ett digitalt verktyg med målet att återanvända design i det långa loppet. I denna studie kommer ett sådant verktyg att släppas hos design agenturen Apegroup. Den primära frågeställningen kommer inom denna studie fokusera på att förstå utmaningar och fördelar i ett sådan verktyg. Verktyget var primärt inspirerat av fälten Computer Supported Cooperative Work och Documenting Design Process. Intervjuer, idégenerering, prototypning, utveckling, testing och utvärdering är aktiviteter som kommer att genomföras av författaren.   Resultaten visade att olika designroller värderar olika ting under design processen, vilket gör det utmanande att utvecklat verktyg som har värde för alla. Dokumentering av aktiviteter i verktyget hade mest fördelar för rollen design director och det stora värdet av att samla intern dokumentation om design processen. Att reflektera över aktiviteter i verktyget fick vissa designers att reflektera mer, men det var utmanande att engagera alla. Att arbeta med återanvändning är utmanade då verktyget kräver kontinuerligt användande för att få ut det maximala värdet. I design agentur kontextet, var det mest utmanande aspekten tid och att utmana designers upplevda fördel under hela design processen.