Design research through practice : from the lab, field, and showroom

Businesses and the HCI and Interaction Design communities have embraced design and design research. Design research as a field blends methodologies from several disciplines - sociology, engineering, software, philosophy, industrial design, HCI/interaction design -- so designers can learn from past s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koskinen, Ilpo Kalevi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Waltham, Massachusetts : Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier , c2011
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Constructive design research
  • 2. The coming age of constructive design research
  • 3. Research programs
  • 4. Lab: can you really study design in a laboratory?
  • 5. Field : how to follow design through society
  • 6. Showroom: research meets design and art
  • 7. How to work with theory
  • 8. Design things: models, scenarios, prototypes
  • 9. Constructive design research in society
  • 10. Building research programs