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Drs Quarterly Council Report: Issue 5, Alec Robertson

Quarterly Council Reports

This issue includes a report from a new Council member - Michael Mealyer for Thailand. Details of the joint one-day event of the DRS and RCA Society in London on Saturday 20th March 2004 are provided, and ‘participant’ forms are appended.

Contents

International Reports

• Australia (West), Terence Love
• Canada, Arlene Oak
• Finland, Antti Ainamo
• Thailand, Alpay Er
• Turkey, Michael Mealyer
• USA, Christopher Nemeth
• DDR4 and Participant Form

Drs Quarterly Council Report: Issue 3, Alec Robertson

Quarterly Council Reports

The editor's note for this issue of the QCR noted, 'Council members have specialised expertise and design research interests. This is to be made available to you, the members, through an occasional page on selected issues. The first such pages are by Seymour Roworth-Stokes (SRS) and Necdet Teymur (NT).'

Contents

International Reports

• Canada, Arlene Oak
• Greece, Artemis Yagou
• USA, Christopher Nemeth

Other Reports

• Elected Council Member (SRS), Seymour Roworth-Stokes
• Elected Council Member (NT), Nej Teymur
• Publications Officer, Alec Robertson

Drs Quarterly Council Report: Issue 2, Alec Robertson

Quarterly Council Reports

This is the second issue of the DRS QCR. The announcement of the Design Studies Award is made in this March Issue by Professor Nigel Cross

Contents

International Reports

• Australia (East), Terence Love
• Canada, Arlene Oak
• Finland, Antti Ainamo
• The Netherlands, John L. Heintz
• USA, Christopher Nemeth

Other Reports

• Editor : Design Studies, Nigel Cross
• Publications Officer, Alec Robertson

Folding, Blending And Implicate Order: Reconceptualisation In Design Education, A. Howe, P. Dillon

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper we consider some of the rich body of work of the mathematician, quantum physicist and thinker David Bohm. Bohm’s ideas have both direct and tangential relevance to design. We review Bohm’s notions of implicate and explicate order as metaphors for the totality of design and the relationship of its parts. There are parallels with initial inception and then realisation through the subsequent stages of design. If one starts with Bohm’s position that the universe has an implicate order, then design is one way of unfolding that order to make it explicate. Design ideas are enfolded around us …

The Importance Of Explaining Industrial Design Diversity, L. Justice

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Clients in industry who come from disciplines other than design often experience deep frustration when working with or hiring industrial designers because they are not aware of the diversity in the field. Their frustration is understandable because designers themselves do not explain the diversity well and present themselves as generalists who can solve any problem. The real issue is that all designers cannot solve any problem and the word “research” has become as vague as the word “design”. In addition, some designers are wonderfully self-expressive and produce passionate designs and other designers produce wonderfully analytical solutions to complex problems. But …

Generations In Design Methodology, J. Broadbent

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The relationship between design and science is examined through the lens of design methodology. The purpose is to foresee the next generation of design methodology and its attributes. Four generations in design methodology are recognized – craft, design-by-drawing, hard systems methods and soft systems methods – and each is characterized in terms of its benefits and limitations in respect of design practice. To the extent that each new generation overlays the preceding one, a system of design methodologies is created which, being more inclusive of the real world, should be increasingly useful to design practice. The change process between generations …

The Use Of The Internet By Architectural Practices In The Uk, M. Fedeski, B. Sidawi

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Since its evolution in 1962, the Internet has provided new services for people and enriched their life and knowledge. Earlier research has shown that the architectural profession in the UK has lagged behind other businesses in adopting and using new technologies and is only slowly absorbing the new innovations brought by the Internet. This lag coincides with a slip in the architect's lead role in the design team. The research conducted at Cardiff University aims to examine how architectural practices are interacting with the Internet and to investigate any problems they are having in its use. Architectural practices in the …

An Indian Who Doesn’T Know How To Grow The Maize, S. Boess, D. Durling, C. Lebbon, C. Maggs

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In user-centred design, a common ground that emerges is an orientation towards research into the needs and wishes of consumers. Hermeneutic phenomenology can be adopted by a designer to investigate her/his own activity and use of knowledge in designing. A reflection of this kind is presented here. It is based on design and research activities in the domain of product design, in which the realization of user-centred design was sought by means of preliminary user research, application of its results in design work, and evaluation of the outcomes through renewed user research. The outcome of the reflection is the formulation …

Using Visual Communication Resource Shifts To Inform Cmc Design, C.-D. Chen, S. A. R. Scrivener, A. Woodcock

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Talking about and with things is characteristic of design communication. In this paper we are concerned with how to design computer-mediated communication (CMC) systems that support such talk between designers separated by distance. We describe a design method based on Scrivener’s (2002) postulate that users in a communication environment satisfy communication purpose by selecting, from the resources available to them, that most appropriate for communication purpose. A method for enhancing the overall utility of a given CMC environment is described where analysis of the shifts between resources reveals insight into their relative strengths and weaknesses which is then used to …

Remote Usability Testing For Information Appliances Through Www - With The Emphasis On The Development Of Tools, K-P. Lee

DRS Biennial Conference Series

As the importance of interface design in information appliances became recognized, usability testing has been widely introduced. However usability testing in the environment of a closed laboratory has been known to cause some significant difficulties: cost, time, unnatural environment, and lack of opportunity for idea generation. The goal of this study is to propose the new prototype of tool for ‘remote usability testing for information appliances through World Wide Web’. At first, existing usability testing methods for information appliances are reviewed to identify major problems. Based on the problems of existing usability testing, the concept of remote usability testing through …

Verbal Language And Sketching, T. Y. Pan, R. M. Newman, S. Porter, M. Tovey

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper attempts to identify designers’ sketches in different forms for a classification system by use of verbal language. Designers have a creative vocabulary, which has rich meanings in design communication. This study was carried out with the cooperation of 11 academic staff in the domain of industrial design. It was concluded that none of verbal language was found descriptive enough for the purpose of separating sketches into different forms to support a classification system. While this study has not produced a possible means for classification of sketches using verbal language, the methodology employed has proved interesting for future investigative …

Proceedings Of The Design Research Society International Conference, 2002: Common Ground, David Durling, John Shackleton

DRS Conference Volumes

The theme for the 2002 DRS conference was 'Common Ground'. The aim was to bring together many of the sub disciplines and sub-groups of the design research community - to present current work, to explore areas of common interest, to connect, to argue, to integrate, and to celebrate both the commonality and the diversity of our shared interests and strengths. The larger purpose is to take a significant step forward and endorse the new maturity of our international, interdisciplinary community.

Drs Quarterly Council Report: Issue 1, Alec Robertson

Quarterly Council Reports

This was the first issue of the QCR - an initiative of the Design Research Society Council with the aim of providing a regular overview of Council member views and activity to the DRS members.

Contents

International Reports

• Australia (East), Vesna Popovic
• Australia (West), Terence Love
• Greece, Artemis Yagou
• The Netherlands, John L. Heintz
• Turkey, H. Alpay Er
• USA, Christopher Nemeth

Officers' Reports
• Honorary Secretary, Rachael Luck
• Publications Officer, Alec Robertson

Design Research: The Newsletter Of The Design Research Society No.63, Stephen Little

Design Research Newsletters (1966-1999)

No abstract provided.

Proceedings Of The 1st Conference On Doctoral Education In Design (1998), Richard Buchanan, Dennis P Doordan, Lorraine Justice, Victor Margolin

DRS Conference Volumes

The 1st Doctoral Education in Design Conference brought people from diverse institutions and situations together to discuss a common concern: doctoral education in design. Participants from nineteen countries assembled on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus,Ohio for a conference sponsored by The Ohio State University Department of Industrial, Interior, and Visual Communication Design, the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, and academic journal Design Issues. Speakers described educational efforts shaped by diverse motivations, resources, histories, and student constituencies.

Design Research: The Newsletter Of The Design Research Society No.62, Stephen Little

Design Research Newsletters (1966-1999)

No abstract provided.

Design Research: The Newsletter Of The Design Research Society No.61, Stephen Little

Design Research Newsletters (1966-1999)

No abstract provided.

Design Research: The Newsletter Of The Design Research Society No.30, Maggie Gordon

Design Research Newsletters (1966-1999)

No abstract provided.