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Lawrie Hunter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • document Design complex evolution interview with karen schriver document Design Researcher and consultant
    Document Design, 2001
    Co-Authors: Lawrie Hunter
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    Karen A. Schriver is the author of dynamics in document Design: creating texts for readers, an extensive, multidimensional portrait of what readers need from documents and of ways to integrate word and image in order to better meet those needs. She is the former codirector of the graduate program in technical communication and document Design at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). She has been a visiting professor at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and at the University of Washington in Seattle. A popular speaker, she has presented her ideas in Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, and across the United States. Winner of five awards for her research, she now heads her own company, KSA Document Design & Research. She helps organizations improve the quality of their paper and electronic communications through strategies based on research and best practices. She is now working on a book about the nature of expertise in information Design. When she is not writing, working with clients, or running to catch a plane, she spends time playing with her two crazy dogs: Cody (a Bearded Collie) and Tika (a little Muttley). She can be contacted via e-mail at: schriver@cmu.edu

Bruce Hanington - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • methods in the making a perspective on the state of human research in Design
    Design Issues, 2003
    Co-Authors: Bruce Hanington
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    Introduction This article was developed from experiences in human-centered Design, both within field research and as a Design Researcher and educator. Several of the observations, insights, and examples offered here have been inspired, or at least clarified, by a current project being conducted by the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University for the United States Postal Service (USPS). The USPS project entails the transformation of complex informational documents into accessible language and visualizations in a new set of documents for use by postal employees, the public, and business customers. My role in this project has been to advise the research and Design team on user research and product testing, given a mandate of user-centered Design. This project is noteworthy from several perspectives relevant to this article, and Design research in general. First, there is the unique aspect of application focused on the Design of an informational document. Although certainly arguable as an interface, there is a perceived difference between this product and more traditional interfaces housed in three-dimensional and digital artifacts. Related to this is the recognized paucity of user-centered Design and testing within communication (graphic) Design,, particularly in comparison to the more established history of industrial Design. Fundamental to my own background in human factors and industrial Design has been the realization that although one can identify these differences, they become relatively mute in the process of research and Design. That is, the issues that emerge, with respect to both content and methodology, are relatively similar in practice, and in fact should be mutually informing across disciplines and products. The information shared here, culled from the USPS project and others, should serve to reinforce the need and demand for usercentered approaches in Design, and offer some clarity in the methods that can best serve this cause.

Moloney C - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Planning a Design thesis: ways, means and tactics for research through Design
    Spurbuchverlag (Baunach Germany), 2015
    Co-Authors: Moloney C
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    "Design is messy and over analysis will stop the flow ... " was the parting line from a colleague after a conversation on Design methods. Fo1- many, 'method' is associated with a grim period in a1-chitecture where science held sway. I certainly have no intention of resu1-recting the dogma of that period, but in equal measure I agree with Till (20 12) that painting the Design Researcher as a heroic genius, marginalises the agency of Design research. Despite the various arguments surrounding the value of Design as research such as those developed by Downton (2003), van Schaik (2008), or Fraser (2013), there are only a few contempo1-ary resources Uomaka,2008) (Muckenheim and Demel, 2012), which at best provide partial references for students planning a Design thesis. If the research emphasis is on Designing, then critical knowledge and skills on the ways and means (methods) and tactics for their deployment (methodology) is essential