In Praise of Theory in Design Research: How Levi-Strauss Redefined Workflow

It is now well known that people use technology in unexpected ways (at least, in ways that software engineering and product teams had not intended) […] Our original charge was to find ways to improve and optimize users’ browser workflows following software and design-oriented assumptions. Instead, we saw that users were doing just fine with the tools they were already using.

In Praise of Theory in Design Research: How Levi-Strauss Redefined Workflow