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The tools of design research, writes Brenda
Laurel, will allow designers "to claim and direct the power of
their profession." Often neglected in the various curricula of
design...
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The tools of design research, writes Brenda Laurel, will allow
designers "to claim and direct the power of their profession."
Often neglected in the various curricula of design schools, the new
models of design research described in this book help designers to
investigate people, form, and process in ways that can make their
work more potent and more delightful. "At the very least," Peter
Lunenfeld writes in the preface, "design research saves us from
reinventing the wheel. At its best, a lively research methodology
can reinvigorate the passion that so often fades after designers
join the profession."The goal of the book is to introduce designers
to the many research tools that can be used to inform design as
well as to ideas about how and when to deploy them effectively. The
chapter authors come from diverse institutions and enterprises,
including Stanford University, MIT, Intel, Maxis, Studio Anybody,
Sweden?s HUMlab, and Big Blue Dot. Each has something to say about
how designers make themselves better at what they do through
research, and illustrates it with real world examples--case
studies, anecdotes, and images.Topics of this multi-voice
conversation include qualitative and quantitative methods,
performance ethnography and design improvisation, trend research,
cultural diversity, formal and structural research practice,
tactical discussions of design research process, and case studies
drawn from areas as unique as computer games, museum information
systems, and movies. Interspersed throughout the book are one-page
"demos," snapshots of the design research experience. Design
Research charts the paths from research methods to research
findings to design principles to design results and demonstrates
the transformation of theory into a richly satisfying and more
reliably successful practice.
