Interaction design takes a holistic view of the relationship between designed artifacts, those that are exposed to these artifacts, and the social, cultural, and business context in which the meeting takes place. While there is no commonly agreed…
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Design research is alive and well, and living in an increasing number of places. I find encouraging evidence for this in the growth of research-based journals in the design world over the last ten to fifteen years. For example, Design Studies was…
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When reason is away, smiles will play. Paul Eluard and Benjamin Péret
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The search for scientific bases for confronting problems of social policy is bound to fail, becuase of the nature of these problems. They are wicked problems, whereas science has developed to deal with tame problems. Policy problems cannot be…
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Designers have been moving increasingly closer to the future users of what they design and the next new thing in the changing landscape of design research has become co-designing with your users. But co-designing is actually not new at all, having…
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There seems to have been a recent slight increase in the number of design papers with the word, evolution in their titles. Unfortunately, these papers are either vague about what is meant by this word, or they use the word in a non-Darwinian sense…
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Frequency and determinants of smoking cessation were analysed using data from two Italian National Health Surveys, conducted in 1983 and 1986-87 on samples of 89,753 and 77,155 individuals respectively, randomly selected within strata of region of…
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The focus of this paper is interaction design research aimed at supporting interaction design practice. The main argument is that this kind of interaction design research has not (always) been successful, and that the reason for this is that it has…
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This article was developed from experiences in human-centered design, both within field research and as a design researcher and educator. Several of the observations, insights, and examples offered here have been inspired, or at least clarified, by…
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This is a slightly abbreviated translation of an acceptance speech in Spanish of an honorary doctorate from the Metropolitan University of Technology, Santiago de Chile, in June 2005.
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In this paper I would like to address the question of design knowledge, considered in the light of this conundrum and in relation to the issue we are discussing today, which I take to be the question of how there can be Ph.Ds in design at allmeaning…
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This paper was presented to introduce Changing the Change, an international conference on the role and potential of design research in the transition towards sustainability, held in Turin, Italy, 10-12 July 2008. At the end of the paper is an…
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This is the third paper in a series being published in Design Studies, which aims to establish the theoretical bases for treating design as a coherent discipline of study. The first contribution in the series was from Bruce Archer, in the very first…
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This is a review paper of the field of research in expertise in design. There has been a growth of empirical and formalised study of designer behaviour, and this paper focuses specifically on expert performance. Some background information from the…
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This paper discusses consumer response to product visual form within the context of an integrated conceptual framework. Emphasis is placed on the aesthetic, semantic and symbolic aspects of cognitive response to design. The accompanying affective…
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I would like to begin this paper with a brief review of some of the historical concerns that have emerged with respect to a relationship between design and science. These concerns emerged strongly at two important periods in the modern history of…
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This paper re-addresses the issue of a lacking genuine design research paradigm. It tries to sketch an operational model of such a paradigm, based upon a generic design process model, which is derived from basic notions of evolution and learning in…
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Many of the management tools and techniques used in service businesses were designed to tackle the challenges of product companies. Although they are valuable to service managers, they aren't sufficient for success. In this article, Harvard Business…
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This paper describes the process of inducting theory using case studies-from specifying the research questions to reaching closure. Some features of the process, such as problem definition and construct validation, are similar to hypothesis-testing…
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Library for literature pertaining to games, virtual worlds, and cybersociality. This collection will also include literature from related areas like… -
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This is a list of basic literature in the field of design theory and research. It assembles some of the most popular references in design research.… -
An organic user interface (OUI) is a user interface with non-planar displays that actively or passively change shape via analog physical inputs. OUIs… -
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