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.
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Design for Real World
The entire Design for Real World. You can read chapter 1 as enriching material.
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.
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.
Basic Design Cycle & Product Innovation Process
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.
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.
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.
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.
User Friendly
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.
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.