Dear Jerry and All,
A footnote to my prior note.
If we are discussing accounts of the design process in philosophical and theoretical terms, we shouldn't forget Don Norman's excellent books, especially The Design of Everyday Things and Things that Make Us Smart. I haven't read Don's new book on Living with Complexity, but the table of contents suggest that it fits.
It's also useful to review Henry Petroski's books, especially To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design. Two more Petroski books to read are Invention by Design - How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing and Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design.
For a broad philosophy of design, Buckminster Fuller's Critical Path remains a classic, along with W. Edwards Deming's great books on design process, Out of the Crisis and the New Economics.
The more thinking I do on this, the greater the gaps I see in the reading behind the draft article -- and these notes.
How can anyone say that no one has addressed these issues?
Yours,
Ken
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