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The design way :intentional change in an unpredictable world
"Humans did not discover fire--they designed it. Design is not defined by software programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we create new things--technologies, organizations, processes, systems, environments, ways of thinking--we engage in design. With this expansive view of design as their premise, in The Design Way, Harold Nelson and Erik Stolterman make the case for design as its own cultu…
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- Second edition.
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- 9780262305655
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) :illustrations
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Design justice :community-led practices to build the worlds we need
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities…
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- 9780262356862
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- 1 online resource (360 pages).
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Material and mind
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- 9780262354141
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- 1 online resource (384 pages).
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Computers and Design in Context
The contributors to this book address both the pragmatic approach of direct collaboration between designers and users (known as participatory design) and the more conceptual approach that incorporates complementary perspectives to help designers come up with better solutions. The volume brings together different computer-related research disciplines, including computer-supported cooperative wor…
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- 9780262277815
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 418 pages) :illustrations
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Things we could design :for more than human-centered worlds
"A posthumanist exploration of what design could become"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366843
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Design as democratic inquiry :putting experimental civics into practice
"Design experiments in civics contribute to keeping our local democracies vibrant, through practices of engaged and collaborative imagination and making"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368943
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The new designer : rejecting myths, embracing change
"A bold, unflinching call to reject damaging design myths and instead build an ethical, aware, responsible design practice that contributes to the greater good-and how to do it successfully"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373029
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Activity-centered design :an ecological approach to designing smart tools and…
The shift in the practice of human-computer interaction (HCI) Design from user-centered to context-based design marks a significant change in focus. With context-based design, designers start not with a preconceived idea of what users should do, but with an understanding of what users actually do. Context-based design focuses on the situation in which the technology will be used -- the activiti…
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- 9780262256223
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 111 pages) :illustrations.
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Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet
Title from title screen."The network economy presents itself in the transactions of electronic commerce, finance, business, and communications. The network economy is also a social condition of discontinuity, indefinite limits, and in-between spaces. In Cornucopia Limited, Richard Coyne uses the liminality of design - its uneasy position between creativity and commerce - to explore the network …
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- 9780262255950
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- 1 online resource (x, 284 pages)
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Artificial intelligence and learning environments
"A Bradford book.""Reprinted from Artificial intelligence: an international journal, volume 42, number 1, 1990"--Title page verso.New perspectives and techniques are shaping the field of computer-aided instruction. These essays explore cognitively oriented empirical trials that use AI programming as a modeling methodology and that can provide valuable insight into a variety of learning problems…
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 9780262288514
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- 1 online resource (162 pages) :illustrations.
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