Design Research Methods and Perspectives

Name: Design Research Methods and Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780262122634

ISBN-10: 0262122634

ISBN-13: 9780262122634

Edition: 2003

Authors: Brenda Laurel, Peter Lunenfeld

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The tools of design research, writes Brenda Laurel, will allow designers "to claim and direct the power of their profession." Often neglected in the various curricula of design schools, the new models of design research described in this book help designers to investigate people, form, and process in ways that can make their work more potent and more delightful. "At the very least," Peter Lunenfeld writes in the preface, "design research saves us from reinventing the wheel. At its best, a lively research methodology can reinvigorate the passion that so often fades after designers join the profession." The goal of the book is to introduce designers to the many research tools that can be…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/24/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

Brenda Laurel is Chair of the graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and was the co-founder of Purple Moon. She is the author of Utopian Entrepreneur (MIT Press, 2001).

Peter Lunenfeld is Professor of Design Media Arts at UCLA and the author of User: InfoTechnoDemo, Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures, and The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine, all published by the MIT Press.



Preface: The Design Cluster



Introduction: Muscular Design



Acknowledgments



People



The Changing Role of Research



Qualitative Methods: From Boring to Brilliant



Ethnography and Critical Design Practice



The Paradox of Design Research



Designing for the New Old



Demo: Design Improvisation



Hispanic Culture in Design Research



Overview of Quantitative Methods in Design Research



User Requirements



Form



Design (As) Research



Speculation, Serendipity and Studio Anybody



Toward a Definition of the Decorational



Demo: DesignWriting



Sensory Anomalies



Spontaneous Cinema as Design Practice



Game Forms for New Outcomes



Strategy, Tactics and Heuristics for Research



Process



Test Pilots



Bringing Clarity to the "Fuzzy Front End"



Research Methods for Designing Effective Experiences



Enabling Design



Non-Assumptive Research



Play as Research



Demo: Creating a Culture of Design Research



Interdisciplinary Design Research



Conceptual Designs



Moving Your Idea Through Your Organization



Demo: Vibe-Hunting



Living Proof



Research to Fuel the Creative Process



Action



Reports from the Field



"You Can't Bring That Game to School!"



SimSmarts



Social Impact by Design



Researching America's Army



A Virtual Walk on the Moon



Demo: Mobium



Research and the Movies



Real Brand Alignment



Conclusion: Beauty, Brains and Bravery



References and Acknowledgments


Index


Biographies