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What is designVUE
designVUE is a branch of the Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) tool originally developed by Tufts University. It is an Open Source project based in the Design Engineering Group of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Imperial College London. Selected for its aesthetics, usability and maturity, the application has been enhanced to provide support for a range of design and engineering information processing activities including requirement capture and justification, design rationale capture, functional modelling and decision making. The tool is suitable to individual and collaborative design practice. New functionality includes support for Issue-Based Information System (IBIS) argumentation and bi-directional hyperlinking between designVUE files.

With the new functionality it is possible to capture design thinking including issues, solutions and pros and cons while easily importing supporting evidence such as images, web-links, documentation and multimedia files. This enables users to capture sources of inspiration, integrate supporting evidence and visualise design decisions.