# Design rationale |  | A **Design rationale** is an explicit documentation of the reasons behind decisions made when designing a system or artifact. As initially developed by W.R. Kunz and Horst Rittel, design rationale seeks to provide argumentation-based structure to the political, collaborative process of addressing wicked problems. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Design rationale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rationale) |