Format:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Edition:
4th ed.
ISBN:
9780080454979
Content:
How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years' research and shows the belief that we all can, and do, design, and that we can learn to design better. The creative mind continues to have the power to surprise and this book aims to nurture and extend this creativity. Neither the earlier editions, nor this book, are intended as authoritative prescriptions of how designers should think but provide helpful advice on how to develop an understanding of design. In this fourth edition, Bryan Lawson continues to try and understand how designers think, to explore how they might be better educated and to develop techniques to assist them in their task. Some chapters have been revised and three completely new chapters added. The book is now intended to be read in conjunction with What Designers Know which is a companion volume. Some of the ideas previously discussed in the third edition of How Designers Think are now explored more thoroughly in What Designers Know. For the first time this fourth edition works towards a model of designing and the skills that collectively constitute the design process
Note:
Front Cover -- How Designers Think -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: What is Design? -- 1. Introduction -- 2.The changing role of the designer -- 3. Route maps of the design process -- Part Two: Problems and Solutions -- 4. The components of design problems -- 5. Measurement, criteria and judgement in design -- 6. A model of design problems -- 7. Problems, solutions and the design process -- Part Three: Design Thinking -- 8. Types and styles of thinking -- 9. Creative thinking -- 10. Guiding principles -- 11. Design strategies -- 12. Design tactics -- 13. Design traps -- 14. Designing with others -- 15. Design as conversation and perception -- 16. Towards a model of designing -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Lawson, Bryan. How Designers Think Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2005 ISBN 9780750660778
Language:
English
Keywords:
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