Design Research: Methods and Perspectives (Mit Press)

Great Book for aspiring designers like myself. Combination of words and images help with learning. Each case study is interesting in its own way and the way the book is divided is very helpful as a reader

Bought it for school and used it for a course, came to me in time for assignments and what I needed it for...

Great insights for any designer or researcher interested in processes... but more importantly in people.

the book looks like brand new, except the fact that the cover is missing. it's now a black hard-covered new book on my shelf. good deal anyway~

this book was required for my university industry design course and it was almost double the price in the university bookshop. So great buy and came in pretty fast. VERY HAPPY

The varied opinions among the existing reviews suggests this is somehow a strange subject area. I can only report on my own response, and I think this is a cool book. Before thumbing through to the preface you'll encounter a neat symbol of good design - a two page spread of the what's in the book. A true "table of contents," whose rows represent various aspect of design research, and whose columns are the book chapters. Each table cell is marked if that chapter pertains to that aspect. Pleasing to the eye and enormously useful, especially if you wish to use this as a text or part of some focused study.Many chapters are authored by one or more designers who reflect on their own approach and experience in design. I found this to be a rich source of material for thinking about ways to create new things. I would think that nearly anyone whose job requires creative output will find here some interesting and useful tools to add to their collection.

This book provides both theory and practical applications. It's a great tool for any designer.

I have to say, on the whole I was actually pretty disappointed in this book. It came off frustrating, I think, partly because there was no cohesive voice. Usually, one would say this is indicative of the design research community as a whole, but I found myself having a hard time switching from topic to topic so fast - the essays were pretty short, and as such, didn't contain a whole lot of information and/or depth to them. The most disappointing section, to me, was the first on "People," because while this is one of the topics (ethnography and the study of people) that I'm most interested in, the essays only seemed to wade into the area knee-deep. That said, there were a few interesting gems in the "Process" section, especially Sean Donahue and Eric Zimmerman's essays. But in reality, I'd pass the book up for a book that more consistently and deeply approaches the topic of design research.

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great book!

The title is very misleading and the main topic of research, i.e. design specific or design research methods generally, is very weak!!! It is neither a good reference book for professional designers nor is it a good textbook for either design instructors or design students.

5 pages in and about 10 typos and grammatical errors.