Design for the Real World | Preface
First published in 1971, Victor Papanek’s lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills.
First published in 1971, Victor Papanek’s lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills.
A book by John Thackara about how to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.
The entire Design for Real World. You can read chapter 1 as enriching material.
Chapter 6 from John Heskett’s book Industrial Design. This excerpt is from the Dutch translation and covers the rise of industrial design as a profession. Pay attention to the industrial, technological and economic context in which the profession arose. Enjoy, but don’t worry about all the examples.
A chapter of the Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design on the Heritage (aka history) of participatory design.
Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need.
Another excerpt from the Delft Design Guide. Only the synectics spread is mandatory material, but also take a look at the other spreads in the enriching section.
Read about two design process models from the Delft Design Guide – known by most students as the IDE Bible (treat it accordingly). We assume you have bought this book for Design Project 1, we suggest reading these two pages (and optionally the spread before and after it) to get an idea of the formalisation of design from the IDE TU Delft perspective.
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of Dan Saffer’s Designing for Interaction. It describes the history of interaction design from the perspective of the products that resulted from user-centered design.
Don’t worry about all the details and chronology, read this as a history of interaction design from the perspective of an interaction designer.
A book that takes formalisation in a completely different direction. Trying to take the perspective of empathy and how to think and be in their practice of design.