Envisioning information
Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity Volume 1
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity Volume 1
Modularity and Innovation in Complex Systems
Management Science
Learning to Contract: Evidence from the Personal Computer Industry
Organization Science
Beautiful Evidence
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Motivation -- To change the way contracts are perceived, designed and communicated in order to improve their usability as tools for inter-firm collaboration. Research approach -- Work-in-progress: a literature review and interviews with participating companies will be used to determine the detailed research plan and the design of the prototypes and tests that will follow. Findings/Design -- Preliminary results and discussions with participating companies suggest that tremendous opportunities exist for improving the ergonomics and usability of complex commercial contracts through visualization and modularization. New tools and approaches are needed to change researchers' and business managers' attitudes towards contracts. Visualization and modularization seem to offer such tools. Further approaches from the field of cognitive ergonomics are welcome to be explored in our research. Take away message -- Contracts are not just legal documents, they are artefacts designed by people for people in order to succeed in collaborative ventures. The time has come to turn cross-professional research teams' attention to improving the usability and communication of inter-firm contracts.