Research for Designers

A Guide to Methods and Practice
Research for Designers is an essential guide for anyone doing research in Design Studies or looking to develop their design research skills.  Incorporating interviews with design experts from across the globe, this book explains how to design for the real world by learning how to understand and solve complex, intricate, and often unexpected problems.

To make meaningful contributions and to drive innovation, designers first need to learn to ask the right questions so that they can identify what the real problems are. They also need to learn how to conduct research to resolve these problems. Research for Designers is a guide to this new, evidence-based creative process. This seminal, bestselling book by Gjoko Muratovski is unique in the way it bridges academia and industry, as well as research and practice. The book also expands the notion of what design is, and what it can be in the 21^st century.

In this fresh, newly updated third edition you will find:

- Updated content with reflections by leading industry experts and researchers.

- New, cutting-edge content on quantitative research, user experience research, corporate identity design
- A brand new set of expert interviews by high profile designers and design leaders

- A seminal essay by the legendary industrial designer Dieter Rams, whose design philosophy continues to inspire the design world.

- Even more real-world cases. 

Incorporating interviews with design experts from across the globe, Research for Designers is an essential guide for anyone practicing design, or doing research in design, engaging in design studies, or looking to develop their research skills.

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