SHARE: a methodology and environment for collaborative production development

The SHARE project seeks to apply information technologies in helping design teams gather, organize, reaccess, and communicate both informal and formal design information to establish a `shared understanding´ of the design and design process. The paper presents the visions of SHARE, along with the research and strategies undertaken to build an infrastructure toward its realization. A preliminary prototype environment is being used by designers working on a variety of industry sponsored design projects. This testbed continues to inform and guide the development of NoteMail, MovieMail, and Xshare, as well other components of the next generation SHARE environment that will help distributed design teams work together more effectively