1. Design Ability 2. Designing to Win 3. Designing to Please 4. How Designers Think 5. Designing to Use 6. Designing Together 7. How Designers Work 8. Design Expertise Bibliography Index
A short and very accessible primer explaining how designers think in order to create.
Nigel Cross is Emeritus Professor of Design Studies, Open University, UK. He has vast experience as a design teacher and an international reputation as a design researcher through books such as Designerly Ways of Knowing and Analysing Design Activity, and editorship of the leading research journal, Design Studies.
Nigel Cross is widely recognised as the leading figure of his
generation in design research. In this book he has produced an
accessible, lucid and authoritative description of designers'
thought processes and strategies, which is essential reading for
understanding design.
*Michael Tovey, Coventry University*
Mixing analysis with case studies, Nigel Cross provides a succinct
introduction to 'design thinking'. His message - that creativity
can be taught, nurtured and developed - should empower even the
most elementary design students.
*Elizabeth Guffey, Purchase College*
This book proves that Nigel Cross is truly one of the leading
thinkers who are working hard to establish the body of knowledge
for design.
*Lee, Kun-Pyo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology*
A highly accessible read that will doubtless help many designers to
better understand - and perhaps also to question - the things they
do in their work life, and why they do them.
*The Designer Magazine*
Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work is a
useful resource for people wanting to get a deeper insight into how
designers go about designing things and systems, and a great first
year student handbook.
*Curve*
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