Design Research: A Disciplined Conversation

Abstract

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 launched in 1979; Design Issues first appeared in 1984; the Journal of Design History in 1988; Research in Engineering Design in 1989; and Languages of Design in 1992. These are not the only ones; and there have been others, of course, in other languages, such as Temes de Disseny (Catalan and Spanish), 1986; Revue Sciences et Techniques de la Conception (French), 1992; FormDiskurs (German), 1996.