Collaboration in professional design practice

PhD candidate Yumeng Xie's PhD Thesis is a qualitative study that aims to provide deeper understanding of how do designers collaborate in professional design practice. And based on those theoretical and empirical insights, this multiple-case study could provide an opportunity to shed empirical light about collaboration theories/models for designers to perform better in professional design practice. Findings and lessons learned can be generalized and utilized in professional design practice, in a long term, this study could enlighten and provide theoretical implications to design education for preparing future design practitioners. Her thesis committee members are Mauricio Mejía (chair), Danah Henriksen, and John Takamura.