The design way : intentional change in an unpredictable world / Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Harold G., author.

Stolterman, Erik, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Philosophy.

Design.

System design.

Design--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2012]

System Details:

text file

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."

Contents:

I The First Tradition 11

II Foundations 25

1 The Ultimate Particular 27

2 Service 41

3 Systemics 57

4 The Whole 93

III Fundamentals 103

5 Desiderata 105

6 Interpretation and Measurement 119

7 Imagination and Communication 127

8 Judgment 139

9 Composing and Connecting 159

10 Craft and Material 173

IV Metaphysics 181

11 The Evil of Design 183

12 The Splendor of Design 191

13 The Guarantor-of-Design (g.o.d.) 201

V A Drawing Together 213

14 Becoming a Designer 215

15 Being a Designer 239.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0262305658

9780262305655

OCLC:

810257421

Access Restriction:

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