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Reflective design documentation
Definition
Documentation used during design to externalize decisions, reasoning, and context so practitioners can reflect on and revisit the work as it develops.
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Reflection becomes more actionable when the reasoning behind choices is recorded close to the work itself rather than reconstructed later from memory.
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Sources and evidence
- Learning Engineering Design Decision Tracking — Review of Literature and Implications; documents and journals externalize reflection and decisions; PDF pp. 3, 12 (direct)