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Design Methods Reviewed

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The Design Method

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The first British conference on design methods was held at Imperial College in 1962. Eighteen contributors from engineering, architecture, planning, building, industrial design, graphics, painting, psychology and cybernetics proposed some new methods of designing and offered many descriptions of the design process (Jones and Thornley, 1963). In reviewing these and other papers, I have tried to map out and discuss the design situation as a whole.

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Jones, J.C. (1966). Design Methods Reviewed. In: Gregory, S.A. (eds) The Design Method. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6331-4_32

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