Chapter Techniques

Each chapter deals with a different technique from which we can best represent and make explicit the forms of knowledge used by designers.

Exploring Design Knowledge

The book explores whether design knowledge is special, and attempts to get to the root of where design knowledge comes from.

Designers and Drawings

Crucially, it focuses on how designers use drawings in communicating their ideas and how they ‘converse’ with them as their designs develop.

Knowledge and Expertise

It also shows how experienced designers use knowledge differently to novices, suggesting that design ‘expertise’ can be developed.

Building Skills and Understanding

Overall, this book builds a layout of the kinds of skill, knowledge and understanding that make up what we call designing.