Collecting Design Knowledge through Voice Notes

We introduce KnoCap, a tool that we are developing to collect design knowledge from conversations. It is well-known that design meetings create knowledge, not all of which is typically captured. KnoCap addresses this problem by relying on Echo buttons for designers to indicate when important knowledge is being talked about, so that that knowledge is captured as a voice note that can be played at a future time. In this paper, we motivate our work, present KnoCap's features, and discuss where we want to take KnoCap so it is not just useful in capturing knowledge, but also relaying it when so needed.