Design Research: A Disciplined Conversation

Abstract

Design research is alive and well, and living in an increasing number of places. I find encouraging evidence for this in the grwoth of research-based journals in the design world over the last ten to fifteen years. or example, <i>Design Studies</i> was launched in 1979, <i>Design Issues</i>, first appeared in 1984; the <i>Journal of Design History</i> in 1988; <i>Research in Engineering Design</i> in 1989; and <i>Languages of Design</i> in 1992. These are not the only ones; and therehave been others, of course, in other languages, such as <i>Temes de Disseny</i> (Catalan and Spanish), 1986; <i>Revue Sciences et Thechniques de la Conception</i> (French), 1992; <i>FormDiskurs</i> (German), 1996.