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The Designer's Guide to Doing Research
By: Sally Augustin , Cindy ColemaneBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Wiley
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An essential introduction to applying research for busy architects and designers
The competitive design market and the need to create enduring value place high demands on architects and designers to expand their knowledge base to be able to digest and utilize multiple sources of information. Expected by their clients to be well versed on all aspects of a project, time-constrained architects and designers need quick responses in the face of daily challenges. As a result, these professionals must—more than ever—rely on, and apply, readily accessible information culled from sound research to gain a competitive advantage.
The Designer's Guide to Doing Research serves as an introductory guide on the general concepts and processes that define "good" research. Organized logically with the practical tools necessary to obtain research for all facets of the designer's workflow, this book offers:
Material written in an accessible format specifically for practitioners
Reliable content by experienced authors—a noted environmental psychologist and an interior design educator who is also a practitionerand writer
Tools for planning, executing, and utilizing research presented in an easy-to-follow format along with case studies, sources, and applications
Written for all practices and people concerned with the built environment, from architects and interior designers to facility managers, landscape architects, and urban planners, this book serves as an invaluable starting point for gathering and implementing research effectively.
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| Title of eBook: The Designer's Guide to Doing Research | |
| Release Date: 11-29-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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The Designer's Guide to Doing Research
Chapter One
Design Research and Its Influence on the Practice of Design
AS THE PRACTICE OF DESIGN seeks to find ways to gain relevance in a changing economy, designers and design firms understand the important role design research programs will have in their future.
Today, design excellence is synonymous with design knowledge. In order to be an effective design leader, designers use vision, knowledge, understanding, and communication. They develop a clearly stated and cogent design discourse based in knowledge.
Building a research expertise can have a powerful effect on design futures. It alters the perceived value of both the products and services provided by designers. A research orientation promotes greater insight into viable practices and methods. From the profession's view, it enhances the body of knowledge that becomes the foundation from which all professionals derive solutions. Its potential is enhanced by associations to other fields of knowledge. By facilitating cross-disciplinary collaboration, the design research approach encourages greater acceptance of design as a political, economic, technological, material, and cultural activity.
Today, it's no longer viable for the discipline of design to rely on preconceived design processes. Issues of globalization, speed, technology, sustainability, and more are transforming how design is practiced. Since LEED certification has focused attention on quantifiable goals, interest in numeric objectives can be expected to increase. Designers are reexamining current design methodology with a goal of creating new processes with greater access to sources of knowledge
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