Designer-centred design research

Boess, S; van der Bijl-Brouwer, M

Designer-centred design research

Boess, S van der Bijl-Brouwer, M

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Publisher:: IASDR
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Consilience and Innovation in Design, 5th International Congress of IASDR13 Proceedings, 2013, pp. 5660 - 5668
Issue Date:: 2013-01

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dc.contributor.author	Boess, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	van der Bijl-Brouwer, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5617-5155	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Sugiyama, K	en_US
dc.date	2013-08-26	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Consilience and Innovation in Design, 5th International Congress of IASDR13 Proceedings, 2013, pp. 5660 - 5668	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-4-9980776-3-3	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/26887
dc.description.abstract	This paper demonstrates how a reworked conceptualization of method takes into account the designers goals as well as the nature of their activity. In that, the paper seeks to make a conceptual step in how we as design researchers approach and influence what designers do in their practice. This paper presents careful observation of and intervention into design activities as an essential link between design research and practice. In this, it reconceptualises what is now known as method as part of the design activity. Because of the expectations that have become attached to the term method, we choose to develop and provide techniques to designers instead of methods. By not only focusing on the process of the technique, but also the way that designers can take it up in terms of its fit with their knowledge, flexibility, experience and learnability, as well as the way designers can use to support their goals and communication, we make a new kind of contribution as design researchers to design practice. The `designer-centred development of techniques creates a new and essential link between design research and design practice.	en_US
dc.publisher	IASDR	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Consilience and Innovation in Design, 5th International Congress of IASDR13 Proceedings	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	International Association of Societies of Design Research	en_US
dc.title	Designer-centred design research	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location	Tokyo	en_US
utslib.location.activity	Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan	en_US
utslib.for	1203 Design Practice and Management	en_US
dc.location.activity	Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.consider-herdc	true	en_US
pubs.finish-date	2013-08-30	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Tokyo	en_US
pubs.start-date	2013-08-26	en_US

Abstract:

This paper demonstrates how a reworked conceptualization of method takes into account the designers goals as well as the nature of their activity. In that, the paper seeks to make a conceptual step in how we as design researchers approach and influence what designers do in their practice. This paper presents careful observation of and intervention into design activities as an essential link between design research and practice. In this, it reconceptualises what is now known as method as part of the design activity. Because of the expectations that have become attached to the term method, we choose to develop and provide techniques to designers instead of methods. By not only focusing on the process of the technique, but also the way that designers can take it up in terms of its fit with their knowledge, flexibility, experience and learnability, as well as the way designers can use to support their goals and communication, we make a new kind of contribution as design researchers to design practice. The `designer-centred development of techniques creates a new and essential link between design research and design practice.

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