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	Design Research in Information Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Design research is yet another "lens" or set of analytical techniques and perspectives (complementing the Positivist and Interpretive perspectives) for performing research in IS. Design research involves the analysis of the use and performance of designed artifacts to understand, explain and very frequently to improve on the behavior of aspects of Information Systems.
		The design researcher is thus a pragmatist (Pierce, 1931).
		Bunge (1984) implies that design research is most effective when its practitioners shift between pragmatic and critical realist perspectives, guided by a pragmatic assessment of progress in the design cycle. Purao (2002) presents a very rich elaboration on the perspective shifts that accompany any iterative design cycle.
	www.isworld.org /Researchdesign/drisISworld.htm (7185 words)

	Design research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Design research emerged as a recognisable discipline in the 1960s, initially marked by a conference on Design methods at Imperial College, London, in 1963.
		It built a network of practitioners and academics, and led to the founding of the Design Research Society (DRS) in 1967.
		The DRS conference proceedings and subsequently the journal Design Studies are primary references charting the development of the discipline.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Design_research (119 words)

	BRAY YACHT DESIGN AND RESEARCH LTD.,- Yacht design and research providing plans for trawlers, motorsailers, powerboats, ...
		For research and development, technical studies and reports concerning structures, propulsion, stability, weight, and feasibility and operational aspects of all types of marine equipment.
		Designed with Robert Harris formerly of Harris and Heacock Ltd. (New York) to be built in aluminium, as well as various other sail and motoryachts over a period of 8 years.
		A specific design was developed for this class which would teach the required material yet be inexpensive and quick to build.
	www.brayyachtdesign.bc.ca (1608 words)

	Cooper: Design Research: Why you need it
		If the design team is truly immersed in the user research and models that come out of that research, it will be much easier for them to design a product that meets the needs of the users rather than themselves.
		As your design team is faced with making decisions about what features to include in a product, and how to present those features to users, having intimate knowledge about at least one or two types of users will help them lean one way or the other.
		Designers constantly anticipate design questions, and as they perform research, it's always with an eye towards how it can help them create a solid design in later phases of the process.
	cooper.com /content/insights/newsletters/2003_03/Design_Research.asp (2136 words)

	MIT Design Laboratory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Design plays a role that is distinct from, but complementary to the roles of science and of technological innovation in the advancement of knowledge and the creation of human benefit.
		Successful design depends upon deep understanding of needs and their contexts, practical knowledge of the means available to respond, and strategies for creatively relating the two.
		The Design Laboratory is committed to the highest standards of design quality, and it pursues its projects within a context of vigorous debate about related issues of values, ethics, and social justice.
	design.mit.edu (355 words)

	Design and Research
		Design doesn't have to be new, but it has to be good.
		Research doesn't have to be good, but it has to be new.
		When you design something for a group that doesn't include you, it tends to be for people you consider to be less sophisticated than you, not more sophisticated.
	www.paulgraham.com /desres.html (2588 words)

	Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Research design provides the glue that holds the research project together.
		A design is used to structure the research, to show how all of the major parts of the research project -- the samples or groups, measures, treatments or programs, and methods of assignment -- work together to try to address the central research questions.
		You'll see that a major distinction is between the experimental designs that use random assignment to groups or programs and the quasi-experimental designs that don't use random assignment.
	www.socialresearchmethods.net /kb/design.htm (221 words)

	Lab Consultant, Laboratory & Research Facilities Design
		Research Facilities Design is an architectural firm specializing exclusively in the programming and design of teaching and research laboratory facilities for college and university, industry, and governmental clients.
		As laboratory building design consultants, our staff is 100% committed to the achievement of client satisfaction and design excellence for laboratory facilities.
		Lab Consultant, Laboratory Design, Lab Design and Research Facilities Design - Tomorrow’s Laboratories Research Facilities Design is an architectural firm specializing exclusively in the programming and design of teaching and research laboratory facilities for college and university, industry, and governmental clients.
	www.rfd.com (210 words)

	Piet Zwart Institute - Media Design Research
		Media Design Research at Piet Zwart Institute is a new programme which aims to developed critical thinking and activity in Media Design.
		The research area of the Media Design Research programme is located at the point of intersection between technological, theoretical and practice-based research in the tradition of art and design and located in the area of computational and networked digital media.
		The Piet Zwart Institute is the institute for postgraduate studies and research of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam.
	pzwart.wdka.hro.nl /mdr (205 words)

	Design-Based Research Collective
		The Design-Based Research Collective is a small group of researchers who engage in design-based research, often in technology enhanced learning environments.
		Rather, we hope that our work will contribute to an emerging discussion within the field as to the nature of design experimentation and other design-based research methods, and provide a coherent vision of design-based research that can speak to critical audiences beyond the research community.
		Research in educational settings have historically been driven by two broad goals: understanding how people learn, particularly within school settings; and designing ways to better ensure that learning will happen in these settings...
	www.designbasedresearch.org (168 words)

	Tsui Design & Research Inc. \| Welcome
		The work at Tsui Design and Research, Inc. (TDR,Inc.) encompasses all kinds of buildings from single family homes, schools, office buildings, stadiums, theme parks, bridges, floating cities to the tallest building ever conceived; the two mile high Ultima/Sky City Tower.
		We are also unique in that we can produce our own clothing designs, industrial designs, furniture, murals, light fixtures and vehicles within our workshop facility and design laboratory of 12,000 square feet.
		Contains the philosophy of evolutionary architecture; the research of natural forms, structures, habitats and processes; and the architectural work that exemplifies this evolutionary approach to design.
	www.tdrinc.com (860 words)

	Scott Brownrigg - Design Research Unit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Founded in 1943 by Sir Misha Black and Milner Gray, Design Research Unit were one of the first fully multi-discipline practices in the UK and have enjoyed a great track record ever since.
		The design philosophies of Scott Brownrigg and Design Research Unit are completely complementary to each other and the strong symbiotic relationship we enjoy provides our clients with a unique and far reaching design service.
		We believe that design is not wholly about style but is based on sound research and implemented by people with a range of skills acting as a unit.
	www.scottbrownrigg.com /services/dru.html (159 words)

	Design Research Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Owen, C. "Design Research: Building the Knowledge Base." Journal of the Japanese Society for the Science of Design 5(2): 36-45.
		91- that the research approach called in contrast with and is closely related to research>.
		Tichy proposes that, from a formal statistical theory of design of experiments, computer scientists (and by implication, IS design research academics) have not achieved the level of maturity of other empirical disciplines.
	www.isworld.org /Researchdesign/drCitations.htm (1517 words)

	Intuitive Design - Thinking Outside the Box (SM) - (800) 977-4566 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This means relying on our user research to identify good defaults and starting points so that we satisfy the greatest number of users without any effort on their part.
		We design for those tasks and avoid extraneous features that might be useful for 5% of your users but confuse the other 95%.
		Our design process ensures that you avoid designing a product now that closes the door on future enhancements, thus ensuring that product evolution is easily recognizable and desirable.
	www.intuitivedesign.com (2761 words)

	CCNMTL: Design Research
		Together, we work through an iterative cycle of research, development, and assessment to create innovative uses of technology in the field of new media teaching and learning.
		Design Research integrates the exploration and development of digital technologies with pedagogical theory and practice.
		The Design Research process for developing classroom innovations begins by partnering with faculty members to discuss their teaching practices.
	ccnmtl.columbia.edu /dr/index.html (425 words)

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		The Center for Environmental Design Research is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California at Berkeley.
		The Center's mission is to encourage research in environmental planning and design, in order to increase the factual content of design decisions and to promote systematic approaches to design decision-making.
		The Green Building Research Center (GBRC) was created in December of 2003 to advance and promote sustainable building design and operation on the UC Berkeley campus.
	www.cedr.berkeley.edu (425 words)

	Design Research Group
		Welcome to the Design Research Group, part of the Mathematics Research Centre at Queen Mary, University of London.
		The logo of the Design Research Group contains elements of the logos of Queen Mary and its Mathematics Research Centre.
		The underlying structure can be thought of as a Latin square, a transversal design, a partial linear space, or a strongly regular graph, or as the Cayley table of the cyclic group of order 3 in symmetric form.
	www.maths.qmw.ac.uk /~pjc/design/drg.html (569 words)

	School Design Research Studio
		We encourage all motivated designers driven to reflective practice to share their in-process, planning and design concepts in the spirit of research hypotheses.
		This paper provides a framework of thirty-three educational design principles from which educators and design professionals can structure the content of their educational facility development process, from the earliest strategic and educational planning right through to design, construction, occupancy and facility management.
		The principles are divided into educational facility planning and design process principles, principles for site and building organization, principles for primary educational space, principles for shared school and community facilities, community spaces, principles related to the character of all spaces, and principles related to site design and outdoor learning spaces.
	schoolstudio.engr.wisc.edu (263 words)

	Speak Up › Design Research
		Any designer that has an understanding of people will have an advantage, and designing for the internet is a case in point.
		Many of its articles deal with gaming and interactive design because as Laurel points out, “…games are currently the most exuberant region of the flat-lined technology sector.” She wrote this in 2003, and with it being 2005, I have to say that she’s still on target.
		Design Research’s articles could be put to practice and form the basis for assignments or stimulate group discussion among a seminar group.
	www.underconsideration.com /speakup/archives/002309.html (699 words)

	Are you looking for The Centre for Industrial Design?
		The MA in Design Practice aims to provide global access to ongoing career development opportunities through a powerful virtual learning environment and professional development network.
		The programme is based on a broad foundation of theoretical and contextual studies, underpinning professional design practice.
		The Transportation Design programme has a long established and successful record of producing graduates for the automotive, marine, rail and aviation industries.
	www.cfdr.co.uk /cfid/index.html (199 words)

	Graphic design resources, industry news, designers forums
		The graphic design forums are a lively and friendly collection of message boards for designers, students and prepress professionals, to talk about anything to do with the creative and graphic arts industry.
		As part of our continued commitment to the area of design research, we regularly update our extensive graphic design resources.
		Design Talkboard reports from around the industry to seek out issues that affect graphic designers, creative agencies, prepress professionals and art students.
	www.designtalkboard.com (643 words)

	Amazon.com: Design Research: Methods and Perspectives: Books: Brenda Laurel,Peter Lunenfeld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The goal of the book is to introduce designers to the many research tools that can be used to inform design as well as to ideas about how and when to deploy them effectively.
		Topics of this multi-voice conversation include qualitative and quantitative methods, performance ethnography and design improvisation, trend research, cultural diversity, formal and structural research practice, tactical discussions of design research process, and case studies drawn from areas as unique as computer games, museum information systems, and movies.
		Design Research charts the paths from research methods to research findings to design principles to design results and demonstrates the transformation of theory into a richly satisfying and more reliably successful practice.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262122634?v=glance (1475 words)

	Helen Hamlyn Research Centre \| Inclusive Design
		Six projects covering the areas of visual communications and product design have been shortlisted for the DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2006/7 - Creactive Design, Red Strategic, Rodd Industrial Design, Seymourpowell, Uniform and Wolff Olins will be competing for the prize to be awarded on 6 February 2007.
		Capture It, a volume of essays exploring the implications of an ageing population for workplace design, and Work Well, which documents nine inclusive work furniture designs, are now available free of charge.
		The winners of the annual Design for our Future Selves awards were announced on 27 June, as part of Innovation Night at the Royal College of Art.
	www.hhrc.rca.ac.uk (259 words)

	haque :: design + research
		We are currently designing a larger, more resilient version of the project, for possible flights later in 2006.
		Prototype research for a suite of low-tech sensors and interactive actuators that can be produced inexpensively from hacked toys and devices.
		This research project will explore how the environmental ambience of a given space might be captured and replayed elsewhere; how your living room might be made to feel like Westminster Cathedral or Hyde Park or some other space.
	www.haque.co.uk (820 words)

	NYPL, Research Guide, Interior Design
		The Art and Architecture Collection of The New York Public Library maintains one of the most significant collections of interior design literature in the United States.
		The current interior design collection policy is extensive, with emphasis on theory and history rather than professional or applied aspects.
		In spite of this, many practicing interior designers, architects and students use this collection, as do scholars, theatrical set designers, and antique dealers.
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/spe/art/artarc/interior/interior.html (148 words)

	Vehicle Design and Research - Australia
		Vehicle Design and Research Pty Ltd was formed in 1990 to provide consultant services to the road transport industry, vehicle constructors, vehicle insurers and government.
		Research on speed control devices for NSW RTA, 1996 - speed limiters, speedometer design, tachographs, speeding statistics, effects on speeding behaviour, benefits and costs.
		Protecting pedestrians by vehicle design - report on an international conference held in Adelaide in February 1999.
	www1.tpgi.com.au /users/mpaine/vdr.html (1020 words)

	Amazon.com: Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points (Voices ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This book is a must read for designers, programmers, copywriters, and any other site decision-makers who want to increase usability and customer satisfaction.
		It's too bad that this book (on design, of all things) had to be presented in such a cheap-looking book.
		Design a better user interface: A guide by Paul D. Hibbitts, User interface design specialist and university instructor
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/073571410X?v=glance (2434 words)

	Tsui Design & Research Inc. \| Architecture
		Our success lies in our commitment to: the use of non-toxic materials; effective labor-saving construction, structural systems that have proven to be highly earthquake resistant, fireproof, flood-proof and termite-proof, utilization of solar and wind power to create self-sufficient energy, elimination of utility bills, and protection and preservation of the natural ecology of the surrounding environment.
		TDR was the first architecture firm to design the San Francisco Giant's baseball team stadium and was part of the design team for the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics.
		Our architectural designs, strikingly unique and insightfully planned, have been featured worldwide and our knowledge of innovative building materials and construction methods is unparalleled.
	www.tdrinc.com /architecture.html (272 words)

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