num_pages: 282
description: Humans did not discover fire--they designed it. Design is not defined by software programs blueprints or font choice. When we create new things--technologies organizations processes systems environments ways of thinking--we engage in design. With this expansive view of design as their premise in The Design Way Harold Nelson and Erik Stolterman make the case for design as its own culture of inquiry and action. They offer not a recipe for design practice or theorizing but a formulation of design culture's fundamental core of ideas. These ideas--which form the design way--are applicable to an infinite variety of design domains from such traditional fields as architecture and graphic design to such nontraditional design areas as organizational educational interaction and health care design.
language: English
title: The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World
publisher: MIT Press (MA)