Exploring design as a research activity

摘要

Design research is a knowledge generating activity, yielding a valuable resource for a science of design. It extrapolates this knowledge in the form of design criteria, criteria weighting, design alternatives, and general rules for choosing between alternatives and deciding on criteria. Unlike the disciplines that have traditionally informed design research, design research as a field of its own has no agreed upon methods for evaluating its own work. Taken a step further, the criteria for what is and is not design research itself is vague at best.