Design is everywhere. It influences how we live, what we wear, how we communicate, what we buy, and how we behave. To design for the real world and define strategies rather than just implement them, you need to learn how to understand and solve complex, intricate and often unexpected problems. Research for Designers is the guide to this new, evidence-based creative process for anyone doing research in Design Studies or looking to develop their design research skills. The book: - Takes an organized approach to walking you through the basics of research. - Highlights the importance of data. - Encourages you to think in a cross-disciplinary way. Including interviews with 10 design experts from across the globe, this guide helps you put theory into practice and conduct successful design research. The book also features a Foreword by Ken Friedman, a new Preface with Don Norman, and an Afterword by Steven Heller.
See Full PDF See Full PDFDesign is everywhere: it influences how we live, what we wear, how we communicate, what we buy, and how we behave. In order for designers to design for the real world, defining strategies rather than just implementing them, they need to learn how to understand and solve complex, intricate and often unexpected problems. This book is a guide to this new creative process. With this book in hand, students of design will: understand and apply the vocabulary and strategies of research methods learn how to adapt themselves to unfamiliar situations develop techniques for collaborating with non-designers find and use facts from diverse sources in order to prove or disprove their ideas make informed decisions in a systematic and insightful way use research tools to find new and unexpected design solutions. Research for Designers is an essential toolkit for a design education and a must-have for every design student who is getting ready to tackle their own research. With Foreword by Ken Friedman.
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Today research is fundamental to design practice and different models of design research exist. The paper begins with a brief historical review of design research and moves on to describe various contemporary research typologies. The author maintains that we live in an Age of Pluralism in which multiple perspectives on the problems that confront us compete for our understanding. The author does not advocate for one particular conception of design research but positions the discussion of different research typologies within a design research culture characterized by intellectual pluralism and disciplinary debates. Design research embraces more than problem solving through empirical testing of different potential solutions; research can identify genuine human needs and question existing practices and assumptions. Instead of asking which model is the correct one design researchers should ask how could such research typologies be used? Based on his thirty years of experience as an editor of the journal Design Issues the author offers practical advice on preparing research for publication and suggests how design researchers can participate in a pluralist conversation about the role of design research today. The author cites Herbert Simon's call for designers to leave the next generation with a better body of knowledge and a greater capacity for experience. The paper concludes with a discussion of the design agenda outlined in The Montreal Design Declaration issued in 2017 by the World Design Summit.
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