Posted on behalf of Chris Rust, who is also in email purgatory:
Begin forwarded message:
> Michael Shannon asked:
>
> >>"Is there a member who could tell me the source of design
> process being described as "analysis, synthesis, and evaluation?" I
> have examples of design process being so described, but do not know
> where the idea originated. Thank you for whatever assistance you may
> provide," <<
>
> there is a full discussion of this in chapter 1 of Henrik
> Gedenryd's thesis "how designers work" including, on page 56, his
> "Rosetta Stone" diagram of a wide variety of models of both
> designing and thinking, all generally along the lines of analysis -
> synthesis - evaluation.
>
> Gedenryd believed that all these models are faulty, that's the main
> point of his thesis which uses designing as the case example to
> propose a new theory of cognition. You can find copies of his
> thesis in various places I think but there is one on my own website
> at http://www.chrisrust.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/academic/resources.htm
>
> best wishes from Sheffield
> Chris
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