The practice of eco-design requires relating traditional design criteria to new environmental
criteria. So far, few studies have investigated the nature and singularities of eco-design. This …

Highlights•Elucidates common foundations of theory-driven design research.•Identifies
major challenges confronting current design research.•Identifies the lessons that can be …

Highlights•Novice designers' prototy** conceptions were less sophisticated than their
reported use.•Many prototy** behaviors reflected literature-based best practices.•Several …

Highlights•We combine design process and cognitive views to understand ideation.•We
identify idea creation and idea judgement as two crucial dimensions to define ideas.•We …

Highlights• We propose a set of six characteristics of research questions.• Effective empirical
design research questions are relevant, interesting, and novel.• Further characteristics …

This book's origins lie in the editors' own experiences of develo** and reviewing
experimental studies of design; and in particular, from our collaborative excitement when …

Previous studies have clearly established the impact of culture on design creativity. For
example, the presence of cultural values with low uncertainty avoidance (UA, the degree of …

Highlights•We explore the multi-scale nature of design activity.•We propose a framework for
combining understanding of design activity across scales.•We demonstrate the multi-scale …

Highlights•We demonstrate the efficacy of a mixed methods approach to design
research.•We establish clear commonalities between practice and laboratory design …

There is an on-going focus exploring the use of gesture in design situations; however, there
are still significant questions as to how this is related to the understanding and …