How designers think : the design process demystified / by Bryan Lawson.

By: Lawson, Bryan [author]
Language: English Publisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2006Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xii, 321 pages : Illustrations; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780750660778Subject(s): Design | Architectural designDDC classification: 745.4
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. What if Design? 1. Introduction -- 2. The changing role of the designer -- 3. Route maps of the design process -- Part Two. Problems and Solutions. 4. The components of design problems -- 5. Meaurement, criteria and judgement in design -- 6. A model of design problems -- 7. Problems, solutions and the design process -- Part Three. Design Thinking. 8. Types and styles of thinking -- 9. Creative thinking -- 10. Guiding principles -- 11. Design strategies -- 12. Design tactics -- 13. Design traps -- 14. Designing with others -- 15. Design as conversation and perception -- 16. Towards a model of designing -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years' research and shows the belief that we all can, and do, design, and that we can learn to design better. The creative mind continues to have the power to surprise and this book aims to nurture and extend this creativity. Neither the earlier editions, nor this book, are intended as authoritative prescriptions of how designers should think but provide helpful advice on how to develop an understanding of design. In this fourth edition, Bryan Lawson continues to try and understand how designers think, to explore how they might be better educated and to develop techniques to assist them in their task. Some chapters have been revised and three completely new chapters added. The book is now intended to be read in conjunction with What Designers Know which is a companion volume. Some of the ideas previously discussed in the third edition of How Designers Think are now explored more thoroughly in What Designers Know. For the first time this fourth edition works towards a model of designing and the skills that collectively constitute the design process.
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Preface --
Acknowledgments --
Part One. What if Design? 1. Introduction --
2. The changing role of the designer --
3. Route maps of the design process --
Part Two. Problems and Solutions. 4. The components of design problems --
5. Meaurement, criteria and judgement in design --
6. A model of design problems --
7. Problems, solutions and the design process --
Part Three. Design Thinking. 8. Types and styles of thinking --
9. Creative thinking --
10. Guiding principles --
11. Design strategies --
12. Design tactics --
13. Design traps --
14. Designing with others --
15. Design as conversation and perception --
16. Towards a model of designing --
Bibliography --
Index.

How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years' research and shows the belief that we all can, and do, design, and that we can learn to design better. The creative mind continues to have the power to surprise and this book aims to nurture and extend this creativity. Neither the earlier editions, nor this book, are intended as authoritative prescriptions of how designers should think but provide helpful advice on how to develop an understanding of design. In this fourth edition, Bryan Lawson continues to try and understand how designers think, to explore how they might be better educated and to develop techniques to assist them in their task. Some chapters have been revised and three completely new chapters added. The book is now intended to be read in conjunction with What Designers Know which is a companion volume. Some of the ideas previously discussed in the third edition of How Designers Think are now explored more thoroughly in What Designers Know. For the first time this fourth edition works towards a model of designing and the skills that collectively constitute the design process.

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