Synectics
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.
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Designers & Design Discourse
Excerpt from Guy Julier’s book Culture of Design. Please read until “Designers as ‘Cultural Intermediaries'” (so pages 46-53). If you want to read further, feel free to read the rest of the chapter as enriching material.
This Human
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.
Shipping Container
Craig Martin’s book illuminates the “development of containerization”- including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers.
Design for Real World
The entire Design for Real World. You can read chapter 1 as enriching material.
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.
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. With this book, Csikszentmihalyi aims to offer an understanding of what leads to these moments.
Sketching
This book by Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur covers essential sketching techniques for product designers. The drawing techniques from this book are taught at this faculty and are also part of a formalisation and visual vocabulary that is very influential in our faculty.
A (very) brief history of interaction design
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.
In the Bubble
A book by John Thackara about how to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.