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The Design of Everyday Life

Each chapter describes one of the case studies in detail and relates it to a question surrounding the co-evolvement of (socially desired) practice and the actual artefacts. [more...]

Barnes & Melles (2007)

Design issues typically emerge from multifaceted social situations, making design research investigations ones of adequately contextualized application. [more...]

Grundregeln für den Messwert und den Bericht von Quellen in der interdisziplinären Designforschung

Dieses Papier, das bei der Konferenz IASDR07 geliefert wird, adressiert die bestimmten Herausforderungen an das Durchführen eines Kontextberichts (contextual review) in der interdisziplinären Design [more...]

Lucy Suchman: Human-Machine Reconfigurations

The book is the updated and extended version of her 1987 dissertation „Plans and Situated Actions“, a frequently cited classic in HCI literature. [more...]

Cultural Probes in HCI

 

Recently I read some papers about how cultural probes evolved since their introduction by Dunne, Gaver and Pacenti. [more...]

Designing Public

 

Alles, was im öffentlichen Raum herumsteht oder sich bewegt, ist mehr oder weniger gut gestaltet: Papierkörbe ebenso wie Verkehrsschilder, Straßen und Parkbänke, alle Informationen und Wegweisunge [more...]

Practice-Led Research Review

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AHRC Research Review
Practice-Led Research in Art, Design and Architecture

Prof. Chris Rust [more...]

Design Thinking

There is a quite interesting article in the magazine "form" (jan/feb08) about design thinking. The author is Nigel Cross, pointing at his new book "Designerly Ways of Knowing". [more...]

East meets West or West meets East

 

Design is a technique and thought combine together to solve the client's problem. But we still have the limitation of using the symbols for design:East meets West meets East. [more...]

The Media Equation

Computers are not tools but treated as real persons. Two psychologists are looking at the processes underlying the very heart of interaction design: the relation of the user (i.e. [more...]

Book reviews in FHP master class

Just wanted to let you know about a master class at FH Potsdam that is partly concerned with Design Research. [more...]

“Design Research Now”, book review

 

There are many opinions concerning the beginning of design as a discipline, its main tasks, its possibilities and prospects. One of the key strengths of Design Research Now. [more...]

Sustainability

Did anybody hear of the book "Worldchanging - A Users Guide for the 21st Century"? [more...]

Another interesting book

Very interesting [more...]