Throughout this course we will conduct a close reading of Harold Nelson and Erik Stolterman's book entitled The Design Way - Intentional Change in an Upredictable World.
Besides this book the course will be based on required readings that will be provided by the instructor. For the essays you are supposed to write, you are encouraged to use texts from this list and to expand readings that you yourself have found relevant.
Buchanan, R (1992). Wicked Problems in Design Thinking. In Design Issues, Vol 8, No. 2. (Spring 1992). pp. 5-21.
Cross, N. (2001). Designerly Ways of Knowing: Design Discipline Versus Design Science. Design Studies, 17(No. 3), Summer 2001, 49-55.
Cross, N. (2004). Expertise in design: an overview. Design Studies, 25 (2004) pp. 427-441.
Cross, N. (2007). Forty years of design research. Design Research Quarterly, Vol.2:1.
Eisner, E. (1998). The Enlightened Eye. Prentice Hall.
Fallman, D. (2008). The Interaction Design Research Triangle of Design Practice. Design Studies and Design Exploration. Design Issues: Vol 24, No. 3, Summer 2008.
Friedel, R. (2007). The Culture of Improvement - Technology and the Western Millenium. The MIT Press.
Friedman, K. (2003). Theory construction in design research: criteria, approaches and methods. In Design Studies, 24 (2003), pp. 507-522.
Gajendar, U. (2003). Learning to Love the Pixel: Exploring the Craft of Icon Design. Retrived from the website http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/learning_to_love_the_pixel_exploring_the_craft_of_icon_design
Krippendorff, K. (1989). On the Essential context of Artifacts or on the Propositions That "Design" Is Making Sense (Of Things)". Design Issues, Vol. 5, No. 2. (Spring, 1989), pp. 9-39.
Löwgren, J. & Stolterman, E. (2004). Thoughtful Interaction Design - A design perspective on Information Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Pacey, P. (1992). ’Anyone Designing Anyting?’ - Non professional designers and the history of design. In Journal of Design History. Vol. 5 No. 3.
Pye, D. (1969). The Nature and Aesthetics of Design. Cambium Press; Reprint edition (July 1995).
Rogers, Yvonne. (2005). New Theoretical Approaches for HCI, ARIST: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, no. 38, 2004.
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/yrogers/papers/ARIST_Rogers.pdf
Schön, D. Transcript from his presentation at the 1987 meeting for American Research Association.
Schön, D. Two links to text, "About Donald Schön" and Schön's text".
Sennet, R. (2008). The Craftsman. Yale University Press.
Simon, H. A. (1969). The Sciences of the Artificial. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA
Stolterman, E. (2008). The nature of design practice and implications for interaction design reserach. In International Journal of Design, 2 (1).
Zimmerman, J., Forlizzi, J., & Evenson, S. (2007). Research Through Design as a Method for Interaction Design Research in HCI, at the CHI conference 2007.
Verbeek, P-P. (2005). What Things Do - Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency and Design. the Pennsylvanian State University Press.
Recommended reading if you want more
Buchanan, R. & Margolin, V. (eds) (1995). Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Churchman, C. W. (1971). The Design of Inquiring Systems: Basic Concepts of Systems and Organizations. New York: Basic Books.
Csikzentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience-Steps Toward Enhancing the Quality of Life. New York: Harper & Row.
Dunne, J. (1993). Back to the Right Ground: Phronesis and Techné in Modern Philosophy and in Aristotle. Notre Dame, IN. University of Notre Dame Press.
Grudin, R. (1990). The grace of great things - creativity and innovation. New York: Ticknor and Fields.
Herrigel, E. (1953). Zen and the Art of Archery. New York, NY. Pantheon Books/Random House.
Heskett, J. (1992). Design methods. Van Nostrand Reinhold. New York.
Marcuse, H. (1964). One-Dimensional Man. Beacon Press. Boston.
Margolin, V., Buchanan, R. (eds) (1995). The Idea of Design. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
May, R. (1975). The Courage to Create. New York: Norton & Co.
Schön, D. A. (1983). The Reflective Practitioner. Basic Books: New York, NY.
Schön, D. A. (1987). Educating the Reflective practitioner: Toward a new design for Teaching and Learning in the Profession. Jossey Bass: San Francisco, CA