Analysing Design Activity

ISBN-13: 9780471960607 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 480 str.

Cross; Nigel Cross; Henri Christiaans

Opis

Design activity encompasses some of the highest cognitive abilities of human beings, including creativity, synthesis and problem solving. Every normal person is capable of exercising such abilities, but it is in design activity that they are most frequently stretched to their limits, and the most able designers clearly exercise some exceptional levels of ability.

Spis treści

Partial table of contents:

The Design Problem and Its Structure (K. Dorst).

The Designer as a Team of One (G. Goldschmidt).

Ingredients of the Design Process: A Comparison Between Group and Individual Work (S. Dwarakanath & L. Blessing).

Design Strategies (C. Baykan).

Analysis of Design Protocol by Functional Evolution Process Model (H. Takeda, et al.).

Design Activity Structural Categories (V. Popovic).

Comparing Paradigms for Describing Design Activity (K. Dorst & J. Dijkhuis).

Observations of Teamwork and Social Processes in Design (N. Cross & A. Cross).

Concurrency of Actions, Ideas and Knowledge Displays within a Design Team (D. Radcliffe).

Can Concurrent Verbalisation Reveal Design Cognition?

(P. Lloyd, et al.).

References.

Blurb

Design encompasses some of the highest cognitive abilities of human beings, including creativity, synthesis and problem solving. A substantial and varied range of research methods has been developed and adopted for the analysis of design activity, but until now it has been difficult to compare the work of different researchers using different methods. This book contains the results of an international workshop held in Delft, The Netherlands, which focused on one particular research method, that of protocol analysis. Researchers from seventeen different leading centres around the world were invited to analyse the same video recordings of designers working on an engineering product design. The 20 chapters in this book are the records of that workshop, providing rich insights into the design process and an overview of accumulated knowledge on design from these researchers. There is also a discussion of the properties and limitations of protocol analysis as a research technique for analysing design activity. The book is a substantial contribution to developing understanding of the nature of design activity, and is of value to researchers, teachers and practitioners of design.