Design research

So what’s Design Research ?

Design research is a process of investigating and analyzing in depth of related information that is usually undertake by designers by using design methods, resulting to gain “holistic” insights to achieve successful, better outcomes for users.

The list of possible focus area of design methods are:

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* Divergence – Exploring possibilities and constraints of inherited situations by applying critical thinking
* Transformation – Redefining specifications of design solutions which can lead to better guidelines for traditional and contemporary design activities (architecture, graphic, industrial, information, interaction, et al.) and/or multidisciplinary response
* Convergence – Prototyping possible scenarios for better design solutions that incrementally or significantly improve the originally inherited situation
* Sustainability – Managing the process of exploring, redefining and prototyping of design solutions continually over time
* Articulation – the visual relationship between the parts and the whole.

through qualitative and quantitative research methods to create new understanding (problem space) toward better design solutions

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Source:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_methods