Domestication

Not according to their function? or the function they were assigned to?
Who defines what will be their function anyway?
Is it the designer or another user?

It seems that the designer may be helpless compared to the occasional user which sometimes can be proved as a more powerful actor in assigning functions to the design objects.
How hard have the designers tried to configure these users and
Which users did they left out? Maybe themselves, which are just a part of the design-network as well.

Objects used as not expected. (By whom? Would be a key question)
What kind of examples can you think of?

Read further:

- Bucciarelli, L. (2005): Design collaboration: Who’s in? Who’s out? Chapter in T. Binder & M. 

- Callon, Michel (1991): Techno-economic networks and irreversibility.

- Akrich, Madeleine (1992): The de-scription of technical objects.

- Latour, Bruno (1999): Pandora’s Hope. Excerpt from Chapter 6: A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans.

-Don Norman. The design of Everyday Things.