Design What ?#%!

What is design? And what is a design method? And how do we use design thinking in practice? The decades since the 1960s have seen an explosion in the development in design methods, and the domain of design has developed into an expanded field of practices.

Ida Engholm and Nanna Norup’s incisive and humorous graphic guide provides a route through the historical development of design methods and gives en easy-to-read introduction to competing ideas in current design research debates.

They present the essential ideas and methods of leading exponents within the field of design method studies and pay special attention to recurrent themes and concerns of designers and design researchers within today’s ever more complex field of design.