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Investigating Design: A Review of Forty Years of Design Research

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Design research tries to answer the obligations of design to the humanities:

A - Design research is concerned with the physical embodiment of man-made things, how these things perform their jobs, and how they work.

B - Design research is concerned with construction as a human activity, how designers work, how they think, and how they carry out design activity.

C - Design research is concerned with what is achieved at the end of a purposeful design activity, how an artificial thing appears, and what it means.

D - Design research is concerned with the embodiment of configurations.

E - Design research is a systematic search and acquisition of knowledge related to design and design activity.

First-Generation Design Methods

- The influence of systems analysis and systems theory on design established the grounds for the foundation of “systematic design methods,”

- The methods proposed at that conference were simplistic in character. Everyone was systematizing his or her own approach to design, and externalizing it as design method.

Second-Generation Design Methods

- Second-generation design methods began to compensate for the inadequacy of the first-generation design methods.

- User participation to P&D is a very wide and comprehensive subject, with its political, ideological, psychological, managerial, administrative, legal and economical aspects in relation to various countries.