Research for Designers - A Guide to Methods and Practice

Design is everywhere. It influences how we live, what we wear, how we communicate, what we buy, and how we behave.To design for the real world and define strategies rather than just implement them, you need to learn how to understand and solve complex, intricate and often unexpected problems. Research for Designers is the guide to this new, evidence-based creative process for anyone doing research in Design Studies or looking to develop their design research skills.The book: Takes an organized approach to walking you through the basics of research. Highlights the importance of data. Encourages you to think in a cross-disciplinary way. Including interviews with 10 design experts from across the globe, this guide helps you put theory into practice and conduct successful design research.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Human-Centred Design
Chapter 3: Design as Practice, Research and Thinking
Chapter 4: Research Essentials
Chapter 5: Ethnographic Research
Chapter 6: Qualitative Research
Chapter 7: Quantitative Research
Chapter 8: Visual Research
Chapter 9: Applied Research
Chapter 10: Presenting your Research
Chapter 11: Conclusion

Report

Today, designers design services, processes and organizations; craft skills no longer suffice. We need to discover, define and solve problems based upon evidence. We need to demonstrate the validity of our claims. We need design research, but as a special kind of research, with methods appropriate to the applied, constructive nature of design. We need a book on research for designers that can educate students and be a reference for professionals. And here it is: Gjoko Muratovski s masterful book for 21st century designers. Don Norman

Product details

• Authors: Gjoko Muratovski, Muratovski Gjoko
• Assisted by: Gjoko Muratovski (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781529708158
• ISBN: 978-1-5297-0815-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 187 mm x 228 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Graphic Design, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, Communication Studies, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Research methods: general, For higher / tertiary / university education, Textbook, coursework