The design way : intentional change in an unpredictable world / Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman.
2012
NK1505 .N43 2012
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Title
The design way : intentional change in an unpredictable world / Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman.
Author
Nelson, Harold G., author.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
0262305658 (electronic bk.)
9780262305655 (electronic bk.)
9780262018173 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262018179 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262526708 (pbk.)
0262526700 (pbk.)
9780262305655 (electronic bk.)
9780262018173 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262018179 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262526708 (pbk.)
0262526700 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
NK1505 .N43 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
745.401
Summary
"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 graphic design to such nontraditional design areas as organizational, educational, interaction, and health care design. Nelson and Stolterman present design culture in terms of foundations (first principles), fundamentals (core concepts), and metaphysics, and then discuss these issues from both learner's and practitioner's perspectives. The text of this second edition is accompanied by new detailed images, "schemas" that visualize, conceptualize, and structure the authors' understanding of design inquiry. This text itself has been revised and expanded throughout, in part in response to reader feedback."
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Stolterman, Erik, author.
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