Designerly Ways of Knowing

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• _delirium · Sep 4, 2011 · Recommends

  …more on the "how things work" side, I like Herb Simon's classic The Sciences of the Artificial, which conceives of design as a science of man-made artifacts. I also like Nigel Cross's stuff. His book Designerly Ways of Knowing (2006) is good but published in some absurdly expensive, for-libraries-only monograph series, so find it in a library rather than buying it. His more recent book, Design Thinking, is a collection of case…

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• whateverdb · Dec 9, 2010 · Recommends

  A good book on this topic is "Designerly Ways of Knowing" published by Birkhauser. It defines Design as a third discipline, distinct from Humanities (which deals with the human experience) and Science (which deals with the natural world). Design with a capital…

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• _delirium · Nov 25, 2011 · Mentions

  …partly to develop it into a science of design, and partly with an eye towards formalizing a model of design that a computer could use: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&#38... Designerly Ways of Knowing by Nigel Cross, which positions design as a third kind of inquiry, neither fully science nor fully humanities, but a kind of constructive investigation of objects and their properties: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3764384840/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

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