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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Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, hot off the press; Spook Country, fiction by William Gibson; Design Research: Methods and Perspectives, edited by Brenda Laurel.