Design methodology: Where do you go?

Abstract

Currently society undergoes disruptive changes so that the pressure on the designer in terms of MORE/BETTER/FASTER seems to be much higher than the centuries before. This contribution aims to initiate a discussion on how to gain a better understanding of what kind of design methodology should be offered to the designer to make him answer to these challenges. Especially the statement is made that there are so many empirical results about design behaviour which are not used - but would be useful to be implemented in design methodology - instead, we always start from the scratch again.