Design Research: Methods and Perspectives

by Brenda Laurel

Book Overview

How the tools of design research can involve designers more directly with objects, products and services they design; from human-centered research methods to formal experimentation, process models, and application to real world design problems.

The tools of design research, writes Brenda Laurel, will allow designers "to claim and direct the power of their profession." Often neglected in the various curricula of design schools, the new models...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262122634
• ISBN13: 9780262122634
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher