Design, Empathy, Interpretation

Ilpo Koskinen

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• A new, empathic approach to design research, drawn from the informed experiences of a leading design research program in Finland. Design, Empathy, Int... Lees meer

Situated Design Methods

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• A handbook of situated design methods, with analyses and cases that range from designing study processes to understanding customer experiences to deve... Lees meer

Critical Fabulations

Daniela K Rosner

• Hardcover | Engels | Design Thinking, Design Theory
• A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself. In Crit... Lees meer

How Artifacts Afford

Jenny L Davis

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• A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective. Tec... Lees meer

Design Things

Thomas Binder, Giorgio de Michelis, Pelle Ehn, Giulio Jacucci, Per Linde

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• A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things. Design Things offers an in... Lees meer

Making Design Theory

Johan Redstrom

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• A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design. Tendencies toward "a... Lees meer

Critical Fabulations

Daniela K Rosner

• Paperback | Engels | Design Thinking, Design Theory
• A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself. In Crit... Lees meer

Adversarial Design

Carl DiSalvo

• Paperback | Engels | Design Thinking, Design Theory
• An exploration of the political qualities of technology design, as seen in projects that span art, computer science, and consumer products. In Adversa... Lees meer

Design Strategy

Nancy C Roberts

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• A new approach to addressing the contemporary world's most difficult challenges, such as climate change and poverty. Conflicts over "the problem" and ... Lees meer

Design, When Everybody Designs

Ezio Manzini

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• The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability. In a changing world everyone designs: e... Lees meer

Being and the Screen

Stephane Vial

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• How digital technology is profoundly renewing our sense of what is real and how we perceive. Digital technologies are not just tools; they are structu... Lees meer

Firesigns

Steven Skaggs

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• Semiotics concepts from a design perspective, offering the foundation for a coherent theory of graphic design as well as conceptual tools for practici... Lees meer

Things We Could Design

Ron Wakkary

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• How posthumanist design enables a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, with whom we are entangled. Over the past forty years, desi... Lees meer

Discursive Design

Bruce M Tharp, Stephanie M Tharp

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• Exploring how design can be used for good--prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change. Good design prov... Lees meer

The Pandemic Information Gap

Joshua Gans

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• Why solving the information problem should be at the core of our pandemic response: essential reading about the long-term implications of our current ... Lees meer

Taking [a]part

John McCarthy, Peter Wright

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• A critical inquiry into the value and experience of participation in design research. In Taking [A]part , John McCarthy and Peter Wright consider a se... Lees meer

Meaningful Stuff

Jonathan Chapman

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• An argument for a design philosophy of better , not more . Never have we wanted, owned, and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through modern ... Lees meer

Overcrowded

Roberto Verganti

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• A more powerful innovation, which seeks to discover not how things work but why we need things. The standard text on innovation advises would-be innov... Lees meer

Pretense Design

Per Mollerup

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• How some design appears to be something that it is not--by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving. Pretense design pretends to be something ... Lees meer

Designing with the Body

Kristina Hook

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• Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire de... Lees meer

Discursive Design

Bruce M Tharp, Stephanie M Tharp

• Hardcover | Engels | Design Thinking, Design Theory
• Exploring how design can be used for good--prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change. Good design prov... Lees meer

Frame Innovation

Kees Dorst

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• How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems. When organizations ... Lees meer

Designing Publics

Christopher A Le Dantec

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• An exploration of design considerations in the design of technologies that support local collective action. Contemporary computing technologies have t... Lees meer