How Designers Think: The Design Process Demystified
by Bryan Lawson
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How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years' research and shows the belief that we all can, and do, design, and that we can learn to design better. The creative mind continues to have the power to surprise and this book aims to nurture and extend this creativity. Neither the earlier editions, nor this book, are intended as show more authoritative prescriptions of how designers should think but provide helpful advice on how to develop an understand show lessTags
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The author discusses design thinking, design processes and design strategies in architecture but his ideas are quite general and relevant also to interaction design. A rather well-known part of the book is the discussion of design as solution-oriented, that is, to focus on heuristic transformations of solutions proposed early on, rather than systematically analyzing the problem until a solution emerges.
the first book i read on the topic of design. useful foundation.
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Bryan Lawson studied at the Oxford School of Architecture followed by a Master's and Doctorate in psychology. He has studied the relationship between people, place, and wellbeing. He has also extensively studied the nature of the creative design process. His book How Designers Think was published in 1980 and is still in print, reaching its fourth show more edition. Bryan was Head of School and Dean of the Faculty of Architectural Studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK. He is now Professor Emeritus and has held professorial posts at universities in Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. show less
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