I thought Terry's post was very interesting.
Terry,
can you elaborate on what you meant by "design theory development" in the post below, or recommend some literature on this, if there is?
You suggest that this is different even from "design theory based on evidence" -- if I read you correctly -- this is very exciting to read, can you elaborate?
Jude
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Subject: Design theory: the importance of moving beyond evidence-based design
What is needed is guidance before and during designing. What is needed is guidance before and during the processes of creating or identifying design concepts and the decision making about design details. It is important that this guidance can be tested, critiqued, validated and built on both by designers and design researchers.
Engineering design fields, information systems fields and many other fields of design have this guidance.
The achieve this by focusing on 'design theory development supported by evidence' NOT 'evidence-based design'.
In these fields, design guidelines (which are open to creative interpretation and extension) are based on design theories and NOT based directly on the evidence. This is an important distinction. The development of the theories interposes a conceptual explanation with predictive power from which a wide variety of new design pathways can be inferred, discovered and reasoned by thought and intuition etc.
The result of this different approach focused on reasoning and design theories in which evidence is secondary is a focus in design research theories and related design guidelines that act as advice to designers to find new and better design outcomes.
It points to more than a world of difference between this 'design theory based on evidence' ('evidence-based design theory') as used in engineering design, (and IS and architecture) and 'evidence-based design'. They are ontologically and epistemologically different.
Importantly, evidence-based design theory gives more freedom to designers, aids creativity and guides the development of better design outputs and design outcomes
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