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Redefining Designing From Form to Experience C. Thomas Mitchell Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience offers a comprehensive new theory of design in which user needs and wishes are central. This landmark work focuses on design in terms of human experience rather than physical form. The book offers a highly critical study of design philosophies that have emerged since industrialization: modernism, late modernism, postmodernism, and deconstruction. C. Thomas Mitchell points out how many designs, particularly in architecture, fail to suit their intended purpose -- not because of their style but because of the design process itself. Mitchell then reviews user-responsive design methods, which he calls design turned inside-out. He explores collaborative, contextual, and intangible design, and cites examples of each. International case studies illustrate up-to-the-minute topics such as humanware, softecnica, the pattern language, and soft design. Also featured is an interview with Bri

Table of Contents
DESIGN IN TRANSITION.

Design Philosophies Since Industrialization.

Design Research.

From Product to Process Design.

DESIGN TURNED INSIDE OUT.

Collaborative Environmental Design.

Contextual Design.

Intangible Design.

Depending on Everyone.

Notes.

List of Illustrations.

Source Acknowledgments.

Index.

Redefining Designing

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Published 12 November 1997
      ISBN-13 9780471290810
      978-0471290810
      ISBN-10 0471290815
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Redefining Designing From Form to Experience C. Thomas Mitchell Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience offers a comprehensive new theory of design in which user needs and wishes are central. This landmark work focuses on design in terms of human experience rather than physical form. The book offers a highly critical study of design philosophies that have emerged since industrialization: modernism, late modernism, postmodernism, and deconstruction. C. Thomas Mitchell points out how many designs, particularly in architecture, fail to suit their intended purpose -- not because of their style but because of the design process itself. Mitchell then reviews user-responsive design methods, which he calls design turned inside-out. He explores collaborative, contextual, and intangible design, and cites examples of each. International case studies illustrate up-to-the-minute topics such as humanware, softecnica, the pattern language, and soft design. Also featured is an interview with Bri

      Table of Contents
      DESIGN IN TRANSITION.

      Design Philosophies Since Industrialization.

      Design Research.

      From Product to Process Design.

      DESIGN TURNED INSIDE OUT.

      Collaborative Environmental Design.

      Contextual Design.

      Intangible Design.

      Depending on Everyone.

      Notes.

      List of Illustrations.

      Source Acknowledgments.

      Index.

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