2008 How Design Conference Notes: Designer's Guide to Research

presented by Jenn and Ken Visocky O’Grady, founders of Enspace Design and authors of A Designer’s Research Manual. (original description)

Design Research

  • Qualitative and quantitative
  • Primary and secondary sources
  • Formative: at the beginning of a project to help define the problem
  • Summative: at the end of a project to determine outcome strategies

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