Designerly way of Knowing - A Design Approach

Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Design (Industry, Graphics, Fashion), University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, language: English, abstract: The study is to show the various Designerly ways of knowing, to call attention to what might be overlooked as significant forms of design thinking, and to understand and take advantage of the methods that designers use to gain knowledge. The aspects explored are the ways designer's think and the ways they know, there has been an investigation made for the various approaches. The anticipated goal of this paper is to create a different whole system approach of design knowing. The findings may be useful in understanding how designers gain knowledge.

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