Design Way Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World

Name: Design Way Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World
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ISBN: 9780262018173

ISBN-10: 0262018179

ISBN-13: 9780262018173

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Harold G. Nelson, Erik Stolterman

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Humans did not discover fire--they designed it. Design is not defined by software programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we create new things--technologies, organizations, processes, systems, environments, ways of thinking--we engage in design. With this expansive view of design as their premise, in The Design Way, Harold Nelson and Erik Stolterman make the case for design as its own culture of inquiry and action. They offer not a recipe for design practice or theorizing but a formulation of design culture's fundamental core of ideas. These ideas--which form "the design way"--are applicable to an infinite variety of design domains, from such traditional fields as architecture and…

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List price: $37.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Erik Stolterman is Professor and Director of the HCID Program at the School of Informatics, Indiana University.



Preface to the Second Edition


Acknowledgments from First Edition


Prelude



The First Tradition



Foundations



The Ultimate Particular



Service



Systemics



The Whole



Fundamentals



Desiderata



Interpretation and Measurement



Imagination and Communication



Judgment



Composing and Connecting



Craft and Material



Metaphysics



The Evil of Design



The Splendor of Design



The Guarantor-of-Design (g.o.d.)



A Drawing Together



Becoming a Designer



Being a Designer


The Way Forward


References


Index