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Taking [a]part: The politics and aesthetics of participation in experience-ce…
Title appears as: Taking [a]part.In Taking [A]part, John McCarthy and Peter Wright consider a series of boundary-pushing research projects in human-computer interaction (HCI) in which the design of digital technology is used to inquire into participative experience. McCarthy and Wright view all of these projects -- which range from the public and performative to the private and interpersonal --…
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- 1 online resource (xx, 181 pages).
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Make it new: The history of Silicon Valley design
Drawing on unprecedented access to a vast array of primary sources and interviews with nearly every influential design leader, this thought provoking book reveals design to be the missing link in Silicon Valley's ecosystem of innovation. --OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 253 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Linkography: Unfolding the Design Process
The description of a method for the notation and analysis of the creative process in design, drawing on insights from design practice and cognitive psychology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262322157
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 192 pages) :illustrations.
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Discursive design :critical, speculative, and alternative things
Exploring how design can be used for good--prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change. Good design provides solutions to problems. It improves our buildings, medical equipment, clothing, and kitchen utensils, among other objects. But what if design could also improve societal problems by prompting positive ideological change In this book, Bruce and…
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- 0262349981
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- 1 online resource (632 pages).
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Making design theory
"Tendencies toward 'academization' of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redstr?om offers a new approach to theory development in design research--one that is driven by practice, experimentation, and making. Redstr?om does not theorize from the outside, but explores the idea that, just …
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- 9780262341844
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 171 pages) :illustrations.
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Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design
Dorst describes a new, innovation-centered approach to problem-solving in organizations: frame creation. It applies "design thinking," but it goes beyond the borrowed tricks and techniques that usually characterize that term. The strategies presented are drawn from the unique, sophisticated, multilayered practices of top designers, and from insights that have emerged from fifty years of design …
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- 9780262328845
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 204 pages) :illustrations.
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In the bubble : Designing in a complex world
"We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World." "In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now - not i…
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- 1 online resource (ix, 321 pages) : illustrations
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The configuration space method for kinematic design of mechanisms / Kinematic…
A novel algorithmic approach to mechanism design based on a geometric representation of kinematic function called configuration space partitions.;"This book presents the configuration space method for computer-aided design of mechanisms with changing part contacts. Configuration space is a complete and compact geometric representation of part motions and part interactions that supports the core…
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The aesthetics of imagination in design
A theoretically informed investigation that relates the philosophies of aesthetics and imagination to understanding design practice.In The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design, Mads Folkmann investigates design in both material and immaterial terms. Design objects, Folkmann argues, will always be dual phenomena--material and immaterial, sensual and conceptual, actual and possible. Drawing on for…
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Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology
How to think about the shaping and composing of information technology from a design perspective: the aesthetics and ethics of interaction design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages) :illustrations
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