Presents the idea that language is definable in terms of seven different 'key language types,' that an understanding of these types and their functions support the basic design practices which must be used to build efficient and usable systems for use by human beings. Thirteen specific criteria are listed to assist in the judging and/or constructing of a systems design, based on the design's use of language. Won the award for the Best Paper at…

No information, the paper is at Fenwick Library. I didn’t read it before sending, so can’t give description.

A technical and mathematical description of the Options Field method. Includes figures and graph examples. The “Quad” concept is introduced and explored. Used for classes taught at University of Virginia and George Mason University.

A presentation packet of transparencies and/or handout pages on the Options Field/Options Profile Method for use in classes or lectures. See notes field for list of other writings on this subject.

Excerpts from previously published articles used as classroom handouts.

A partial draft with attached memo stating that it is being sent to colleagues. Includes comments from one reviewer.

A draft of a paper that was an outgrowth of “Options Profiles” and intended for publication.

One of several “self-paced learning units” Warfield developed and used for classes he taught. Item missing.

This is a nine page FAX message, sent from Scott Staley to John Warfield on 2 April 1992. It is a draft copy of pages 1-8 and pages 153-159 of a Ford Report titled “Application of Interactive Management to System-wide Planning for Analytical Powertrain.” This Ford Report was a 160 page document reporting on the first Interactive Management Workshop for Ford Motor Company, held in April 1992 at the Ford facilities in Dearborn, Michigan. See…

This essay draws on a longer paper by Warfield titled: "Structural Thinking: Producing Effective Organizational Change in Organizations" and talks about ways to fix organizational problems.

Three complementary, but distinct, tasks were carried out to structure complexity, based on different parts of the available material. In the first approach, 20 Laws of Complexity developed over the course of the research, were placed in five categories. Three of them involve human behavior: Habitual Behavior, Physiological Behavior, and Organizational Behavior; one category involves Communication Media; and one category involves Mathematical Operations. In the second approach, over 500 transparencies were organized into 14 categories…