How Designers Think. The Design Process Demystified

✍ Scribed by Bryan Lawson (Auth.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Ltd, Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is about design problems and the design process. Design skills (or "creativity") are involved in a great many human activities, but exactly how the design process occurs has obstinately resisted explanation both by those involved in practice and by psychologists. Bryan Lawson has the unusual qualification of being both a designer and a psychologist, and this book draws on his own teaching experience, designers' own accounts of their work, and the writing of design methodologists and theoreticians. The author shows that the design process involves a variety of different types of thinking and that design skills can be acquired, practised and improved, like playing an instrument, rather than being imparted as if by some mysterious process. His book will be of great interest not only to designers seeking a greater insight into their own thought processes, but also to students of design in general

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Dedication, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Author's preface to the second edition, Pages vi-vii
1 - Introduction, Pages 1-7
2 - The changing role of the designer in society, Pages 10-21
3 - Descriptions of the design process, Pages 22-36
4 - The components of design problems, Pages 38-47
5 - Measurement, criteria and judgement in design, Pages 48-62
6 - A model of design problems, Pages 63-81
7 - Problems and solutions, Pages 82-93
8 - Types and Styles of thinking, Pages 96-107
9 - Creative thinking, Pages 108-120
10 - Design philosophies, Pages 121-132
11 - Design strategies, Pages 133-153
12 - Design tactics and traps, Pages 154-177
13 - Designing with others, Pages 178-194
14 - Designing with computers, Pages 195-223
15 - Where next?, Pages 224-227
BIBLIOGRAPHY, Pages 228-237
Index, Pages 239-243