Dear Don,
Thank you for your comments. Your suggestion for bridging across marketing research and design research is interesting.
It was interesting that you raised the issue of design by expert users. Lancaster University's Institute of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development recently used to specialise in research into design by expert users. The term used for that kind of design research was/(is?) 'Lead User Innovation'. ( The term came from Eric Von Hippel at Sloan if I remember right - https://evhippel.mit.edu/papers/section-1/ ). Two colleagues Mary Rose and Mike Parsons have written at length about this in relation to equipment design for mountaineering: e.g. 'Lead-User Innovation and the U.K. Outdoor Trade since 1850' http://www.thebhc.org/sites/default/files/parsonsandrose.pdf and the Design History prize winning book 'Invisible on Everest: Innovation and the Gear Makers' . One research outcome was design research and design outcomes in Lead User Innovation are strongly shaped by path-dependent factors - Rose, M., Love, T., & Parsons, M. (2007). 'Path Dependent Foundation of Global Design-driven Outdoor Trade in NW of England'. International Journal of Design, 1(3), 57-68 (http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/160/79 ).
One fo the interesting aspects of Lead User Innovation research and design methods is they typically don't involve professional designers.
Best wishes,
Terry
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