Design Research Through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom (Paperback)

Businesses and the HCI and Interaction Design communities have embraced design and design research. Design research as a field blends methodologies from several disciplines - sociology, engineering, software, philosophy, industrial design, HCI/interaction design -- so designers can learn from past successes and failure and don't have to reinvent the wheel for each new design (whether it's a digital product, a building, an airplane or furniture). They take into account form, function, and, ultimately, users.

Many books exist in the research and academic realm for this field, but none create a usable bridge to design practice. Although business people are embracing design, they are not going to become designers. Design researchers need tools to apply their research in the real world.

Design Research through Practice takes advanced design practice as its starting point, but enriches it to build a design process than can respond to both academic and practical problems. The aims of the book are to study three design research traditions that cover methodological directions in current leading research community. Taking you from the Lab, Field and to the Showroom, Ilpo Koskinen and his group of researchers show you successful traditions in design research that have been integrated into processes and products.  Bridging the gap from design research to design practice, this is a must have for any designer.

. Gathers design research experts from traditional lab science, social science, art, industrial design, UX and HCI to lend tested practices and how they can be used in a variety of design projects

. Provides a multidisciplinary story of the whole design process, with proven and teachable techniques that can solve both academic and practical problems

. Presents key examples illustrating how research is applied and vignettes summarizing the key how-to details of specific projects

企業和人機互動設計社群已經接受了設計和設計研究。設計研究作為一個領域，結合了社會學、工程學、軟體學、哲學、工業設計、人機互動設計等多個學科的方法論，使設計師能夠從過去的成功和失敗中學習，而不必為每個新的設計（無論是數位產品、建築、飛機還是家具）重新發明輪子。他們考慮到形式、功能和最終用戶。

雖然在研究和學術領域有許多書籍，但沒有一本能夠將其應用於設計實踐的可用橋樑。儘管商業人士正在接受設計，但他們不會成為設計師。設計研究人員需要工具來將他們的研究應用於現實世界。

《設計研究實踐》以先進的設計實踐為起點，豐富其內容，以建立一個能夠應對學術和實際問題的設計過程。本書的目標是研究三種設計研究傳統，涵蓋了當前領先研究社群中的方法論方向。作者Ilpo Koskinen和他的研究小組帶領讀者從實驗室、田野到陳列室，展示了已經被整合到過程和產品中的設計研究的成功傳統。這本書將設計研究與設計實踐之間的鴻溝，是任何設計師必備的工具。

本書匯集了傳統實驗室科學、社會科學、藝術、工業設計、使用者體驗和人機互動設計等設計研究專家，提供了經過驗證的實踐方法，以及如何應用於各種設計項目。

本書提供了整個設計過程的跨學科故事，介紹了解決學術和實際問題的可行技術，並呈現了應用研究的關鍵示例和摘要，總結了特定項目的關鍵操作細節。