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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Since its initial publication in 1970, Design Methods has been considered the seminal work on design methodology. Written by one of the founders of the design methods movement, it has been highly praised in international journals and has been…
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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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Design involves solving problems, creating something new, or transforming less desirable situations to preferred situations. To do this, designers must know how things work and why. Understanding how things work and why requires us to analyze and…
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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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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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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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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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A useful starting point for designing advanced graphical user interfaces is the visual information seeking Mantra: overview first, zoom and filter, then details on demand. But this is only a starting point in trying to understand the rich and varied…
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This essay is based on a paper presented at "Colloque Recherches sur le Design: Incitation Implication Interactions" the first French university symposiumon design research held October 1990 at l'Universitée de Technologie de Compiègne, Compiègne,…
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The paper begins with a brief review of the historical concerns with the relationship between design and science, and seeks to clarify three different interpretations of this concern: (a) scientific design, (b) design science, and (c) a science of…
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Excerpt: "The reason I am interested in the spread in comprehension and extension of the term design is not because of any intimate knowledge of design practice. (I know even less about its history and I hope the many historians of the notion among…
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Mobile Interaction Design shifts the design perspective away from the technology and concentrates on usability; in other words the book concentrates on developing interfaces and devices with a great deal of sensitivity to human needs, desires and…
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When reason is away, smiles will play. Paul Eluard and Benjamin Péret
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We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex…
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A New Worldview? Even the most cursory look at recent literature and production in would be sufficient to reach the conclusion that the general landscape is safe, quiet, and serene. It is, therefore, not really origi- nal to claim that we are in a…
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The cartography of controversies is a set of techniques to explore and visualize issues. It was developed by Bruno Latour as a didactic version of Actor-Network Theory to train college students in the investigation of contemporary socio-technical…
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We are quickly passing through the historical moment when people work in front of a single computer, dominated by a small CRT and focused on tasks involving only local information. Networked computers are becoming ubiquitous and are playing…
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DESIGNERS HAVE TRADI- TIONALLY FOCUSED ON ENHANCING THE LOOK AND FUNCTIONALITY OF PRODUCTS. RECENTLY, THEY HAVE BEGUN USING DESIGN TOOLS TO TACKLE MORE COMPLEX PROBLEMS, SUCH AS FINDING WAYS TO PROVIDE LOW-COST HEALTH CARE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.…
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How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years' research and shows the belief that we all…
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