Links

Here are some links to favourite and possibly helpful sites - enjoy!

Research organisations

Design Research Society: http://www.designresearchsociety.org/joomla/index.php

Engage (Associated with Design and Emotion): http://www.designandemotion.org/society/engage/

Design and Emotion Society: http://www.designandemotion.org/

Association for Qualitative Research: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/aqr/

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences: http://www.iccr-international.org/

International Association of Societies of Design Research: http://www.iasdr2009.org/main.asp

 

Design discussion groups

TED talks (Technology, Entertainment, Design): http://www.ted.com/

PhD – Design discussion List: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=PhD-Design

UXnet: The User Experience Network: http://uxnet.org/

All About Design Research (Terry Loves site): http://www.allaboutdesignresearch.com/

Attainable Utopias - A MetaDesign ThinkTank: http://www.attainable-utopias.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

Slow Design Network: http://www.slowdesign.org/slownetworks.html

 

Research tools

Elizabeth Sanders – Make tools: http://maketools.com/

Research Methods On-Line Texts and Tutorials: https://www.msu.edu/course/prr/844/methlk.htm#methods

The Toulmin theory of argument: http://www.unl.edu/speech/comm109/Toulmin/

Ideo research methods cards: http://www.ideo.com/

 

Designing Tools

Information aesthetic presentation: http://infosthetics.com/

Notcot (sources of inspiration): http://www.notcot.org/

Brainstorming: http://www.brainstorming.co.uk/

Idea generation methods: http://www.ideagenerationmethods.com/

Inclusive design Toolkit: http://www.inclusivedesigntoolkit.com/

Design Sketching (Erik Olofsson and Klara Sjölen): http://www.designsketching.com/

Eco-specifier: http://www.ecospecifier.org/

 

Experience Design Companies

Jodi Forlizzi – Interaction Design: http://goodgestreet.com/index.html

eDesign: http://smart.uiah.fi/edesign/eDesign.html

Experientia: http://www.experientia.com/

Adaptive Path: http://www.adaptivepath.com/

Convivio – Human Centred Design: http://www.convivionetwork.net/

Doors of perception: http://www.doorsofperception.com/

Sonic Rim: http://sonicrim.com/

Pine & Gilmore – Strategic Horizons: http://www.customization.com/bodyOfThought.html

 

Ecological Design

McKenzie-Mohr & Assoc – Sustainable Design: http://www.cbsm.com/public/world.lasso

O2 – Network of Sustainable Design: http://www.o2.org/index.php

OnEarth: http://www.nrdc.org/onearth//04sum/default.asp

The Smart-Know Net: http://www.cfsd.org.uk/smart-know-net/

World Carfree Network: http://www.worldcarfree.net/

United Nations Environment Programme: http://www.uneptie.org/scp/

 

Ecological Education

Toolbox for sustainable design education: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/susdesign/LTSN/reading/reading.htm

International Consortium for Experiential Learning: http://www.education.uts.edu.au/icel/index.html

Dott 07 – Designs of the Times: http://www.dott07.com/

 

Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

Glossary of Heideggarian terms: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/b_resources/b_and_t_glossary.html

Heidegger site – Ereignis: http://www.beyng.com/ereignis.html

Max Van Manens website: http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/max/articles/index.html