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Deliverables
The third constituent element of the overall
competence of designing is the quality of
the student’s overall design or the whole of
his/her deliverables, including the extent to
which the student’s deliverables show the
student’s own ‘signature’. Throughout the
process, the decisions in the middle circle
can have different forms: e.g. implicitly or
explicitly, verbally or written down, or even
physicalised. John’s project showed many
physical deliverables and even three working
prototypes. But he made many more decisions
and produced many other deliverables such as
the outcomes of several user studies, a project
report, a presentation, a file for a patent, and
an accepted paper for the TEI’09 conference
(Helmes, Hummels and Sellen, 2009). The
deliverables are strongly linked to the other
elements in the framework. They repre sent, for
example, his strength in specific activities (e.g.
making). They also indicate the importance of
the variety of competency areas for the design
of intelligent systems, products and services.
Professional and
personal attitude
A competency is defined as “an individual’s
ability to acquire, select and use the
knowledge, skills and attitude that are
required for effective behaviour in a specific
professional, social or learning context”.
Attitude is an integral part of a competency.
Due to the importance of the student’s
attitude, we have explicitly visualised it in
the framework, as the (white) ground layer
for all other activities and development of
competencies and deliverables. The attitude
can refer to the professional attitude. Students
are considered junior employees, so they
are expected to contribute to a professional
learning and working environment. This means
that they need to act responsibly for their own
learning programme as well as for their working
hours. We would like students to benefit fully
from our workspaces and expertise, which
implies being at the department for all workrelated
activities. Being here full-time gives
students the opportunity to share experiences