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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Participatory Design History
A chapter of the Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design on the Heritage (aka history) of participatory design.
The Art of Innovation
Partner of IDEO, Tom Kelley, tells about their way of working behind the scenes: leading to both big successes and joyful failures.
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.