Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

The Design Problem and Its Structure (K. Dorst).

The Designer as a Team of One (G. Goldschmidt).

Ingredients of the Design Process: A Comparison Between Group andIndividual Work (S. Dwarakanath & L. Blessing).

Design Strategies (C. Baykan).

Analysis of Design Protocol by Functional Evolution Process Model(H. Takeda, et al.).

Design Activity Structural Categories (V. Popovic).

Comparing Paradigms for Describing Design Activity (K. Dorst &J. Dijkhuis).

Observations of Teamwork and Social Processes in Design (N. Cross& A. Cross).

Concurrency of Actions, Ideas and Knowledge Displays within aDesign Team (D. Radcliffe).

Can Concurrent Verbalisation Reveal Design Cognition?

(P. Lloyd, et al.).

References.

About the Author

Nigel Cross is a professor and leading international figure in the world of design research and methodology. He is a long-time member of the academic staff of the UK's pioneering, multimedia Open University, where he has been involved in developing a wide range of distance-education courses in design,. He has also held visiting appointments in The Netherlands, Australia and the USA. His research interests are principally in understanding the nature of design ability, and the development of design skill from novice to expert. Professor Cross is also editor-in-chief of Design Studies, the international journal of design research.

Henri Christiaans is a professor and Dean of the School of Design & Human Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology. He is also an invited professor at the School of Architecture of University in Minho, Portugal. He has earned a master's degree in psychology and a PhD in Industrial Design Engineering.