The Designer's Guide to Doing Research: Applying Knowledge to Inform Design
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Author(s)Sally Augustin, Cindy Coleman,
PublisherWiley
ISBN / ASIN0470601736
ISBN-139780470601730
Sales Rank1,271,032
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
From the Author Sally Augustin: Why should you be doing research now?
- Using research to streamline the design options you work with can save you time and that means more income for you.
- If your design work can be linked to research, many of your clients will be more comfortable with the decisions that they make and that you’ve made.
- It’s ethical to research. Design has a significant influence on how people heal, learn, work, shop, live, and love. You need to know how your design decisions influence those processes.
- The world is changing. And becoming even more complicated. Designers are being asked to create spaces for people they’ve never met who are doing things they themselves have never done, within a culture they’ve never experienced – which leads a slew of questions to be answered.
- After their professional training, designers begin to live in the physical world differently than people without that training. Research re-connects you to the world of the “un-trained.”
- Researchers have probed topics related to your current project – if you research, you can speed up your own original research efforts – or maybe find the answers to all your questions without writing a single survey or interview question (or doing any other primary research) yourself.
- Even if you think you know all about the circumstances under which people will use the place or object you’re designing, it’s important to verify that your info is really applicable and current.
- The research process is getting more straightforward as additional information on techniques and analysis tools are available online.
- Designing requires you to do the same sort of thinking that researching does – so you’re really researching anyway, whether you acknowledge that you’re doing so or not.
- Researching builds a strong and useful knowledge base for future work, particularly if you’re organized about the process and your findings.
