9. The easily definable field of design research Conflict and convergence Design thinking Design as science Design as experimental inquiry Taking part in the discussion Relevance vs. rigor Science of design
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11. “ We have been slow to recognize the peculiar indeterminacy of subject matters in design and its impact on the nature of design thinking. As a consequence, each of the sciences that have come into contact with design has tended to regard design as an “applied” version of its own knowledge, methods, and principles.” (Buchanan 1995)
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13. Design thinking ” everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones” (Herbert Simon) Science of design
Briefly about the outset for making this research into the workings of design research Being not at home in the wider HCI community – baffled by: Uninteresting results Presented in uninteresting ways No one were really kicking ass – just looking for smallish issues I thought that there must be a reason why we (designers) do not fit in here AND there must be away to define design research that makes it interesting to the wider designer field – not only the academic field of psycologists, computer scientists etc at CHI, DIS and the rest of the conferences