Dear Carlos Pires
I recommend it strongly. Among the best books on the subject demonstrating a great deal of clarity of understanding of design as a subject and showing how its interpretation varies with levels of expertise in working with it.
Bryan Lawson is joined here by Kees Dorst who's papers and other books are also interesting. Bryan Lawson's two earlier books which were good in their own right were far surpassed by this particular offering, a sort of cumulative excellence and great team synergy perhaps.
Yes, strongly recommended. I also like the models, diagrams and tables provided in addition to texts of very high clarity.
With warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my iPad at home on the NID campus
11 November 2014 at 8.00 am IST
Prof M P Ranjan
Independent Academic, Ahmedabad
Adjunct Professor (Design) Ahmedabad University
Author of blog : http://www.designforindia.com
Archive of papers : http://cept.academia.edu/RanjanMP
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> On 11-Nov-2014, at 7:38 am, Carlos Pires <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> A request for comments, related to what Terry was refering to. I am also interested in the subject.
> Does anybody recommend the following book?
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> http://www.amazon.com/Design-Expertise-Bryan-Lawson/dp/1856176703/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415638617&sr=1-1&keywords=9781856176705
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> Of course, I welcome other references.
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> Best regards,
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>> On 10/11/2014, at 15:23, Terence Love wrote:
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>> Third, and I apologise as I can't put my hand to the research instantly, a couple of years ago I came across the surprising research finding that best outcomes in many areas of medicine came from doctors only a couple of years out of training. From memory, the longer doctors had been practicing, the poorer the average of outcomes. It's an interesting question as to whether this is true of designers and academics. Its certainly regarded as true within engineering professions, which is why practicing engineers have to do so much yearly continuing re-education to continually update their skills. In many fields, skills and knowledge go out of date very quickly. One medical doctor I know commented that two years is the equivalent of needing 50% change in knowledge. Some ICT design fields are even more extreme with almost 100% knowledge turnover each year. The idea of practice benefiting by wisdom and experience of years is sometimes not supported by the evidence. It may in fact be that we have over-reified 'wisdom and experience' and it may be better to simply focus on having the skills, use of theories and information to produce better outcomes.
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