Description
Book SynopsisSince its initial publication in 1970, Design Methods has been considered the seminal work on design methodology. Written by one of the founders of the design methods movement, it has been highly praised in international journals and has been translated into Japanese, Romanian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. As Jones states in the preface: Alongside the old idea of design as the drawing of objects that are then to be built or manufactured there are many new ideas of what it is, all very different:
- designing as the process of devising not individual products but whole systems or environments such as airports, transportation, hypermarkets, educational curricula, broadcasting schedules, welfare schemes, banking systems, computer networks;
- design as participation, the involvement of the public in the decision-making process;
- design as creativity, which is supposed to be potentially present in everyone;
- design as an educational discipline tha
Table of Contents
THE DEVELOPING DESIGN PROCESS.
What is Designing?
Traditional Methods.
The Need for New Methods.
The New Methods Reviewed.
The Design Process Disintegrated.
Choosing Strategies and Methods.
DESIGN METHODS IN ACTION.
Prefabricated Strategies (Convergence).
Strategy Control.
Methods of Exploring Design Situations (Divergence).
Methods of Searching for Ideas (Divergence and Transformation).
Methods of Exploring Problem Structure (Transformation).
Methods of Evaluation (Convergence).
References and Index of Authors.
Subject Index to Part 1.
