Design Thinking

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1. sbukOct 2018
   For you budding industrial designers;

   The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman

   Ways of Seeing - Jon Berger

   Principles of Form and Design - Wucius Wong

   Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work - Nigel Cross

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2. _deliriumSep 2011
   For a design-studies take even more on the "how things work" side, I like Herb Simon's classic The Sciences of the Artificial, which conceives of design as a science of man-made artifacts.

   I also like Nigel Cross's stuff. His book Designerly Ways of Knowing (2006) is good but published in some absurdly expensive, for-libraries-only monograph series, so find it in a library rather than buying it. His more recent book, Design Thinking, is a collection of case studies with some analysis, a bit lighter but also good (and not $149: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847886361/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...)

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