Instead of asking task owners to decide the design solutions and break them down into microtasks beforehand, a better workflow should support interface design task design with consideration of above unpredictability.

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In microtask crowdsourcing, microtasks are designed and planned by task owners beforehand. However, there are two reasons why it is difficult for task owners to envision and create microtasks for interface design tasks.

- First, the process of interface design is unpredictable. Different designers typically take different approaches to the same design problem

- The results of interface design are unpredictable. A high quality interface design often reflects novel ideas from creative designers, ideas that in many cases are beyond the customers’ expectations


Task unpredictability (A Brief Perspective on Microtask Crowdsourcing Workflows for Interface Design)

Mengyao Zhao and Andree van der Hoek (2015) A Brief Perspective on Microtask Crowdsourcing Workflows for Interface Design. 2015 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on CrowdSourcing in Software Engineering. Department of Informatics. University of California, Irvine


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