Dear Dr. Gjoko Muratovski

We look forward to your book, much needed perhaps to clear a lot of confusion about design and design research.

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 10-Mar-2015, at 2:54 pm, Gjoko Muratovski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear Mauricio,
> 
> Thank you for your interest in the book.
> 
> The manuscript for 'Design and Research: A Guide to Research for Designers' is currently with Sage and I expect the book to be published either by the end of the year, or early next year in UK, USA and Asia. Sage commissioned me to write this book in 2010, but I finished the manuscript just recently. It is quite an extensive work, just under 100.000 words.
> 
> As the title says, this book is a guide to research for designers. Due to its academic complexity and unfamiliar terminology, studying research methods and methodologies can be one of the most challenging areas for designers that embark on a research path. Most of the existing literature is aimed at senior academics and students often find this type of literature perplexing or difficult to understand. Therefore, the content of this book and the writing style is not aimed at senior academics and experienced researchers. Instead, the most suitable audience for this book are design students enrolled in undergraduate or postgraduate courses on research methods and methodologies; emerging researchers such as PhD students, early and mid-level career researchers; as well as design professionals interested in applying research into their practice. 
> 
> The purpose of the book is to introduce designers and emerging design researchers to some of the most commonly used research approaches. The book is written under the premise of cross-disciplinary design research and education, which means that I introduce a range of perspectives on using research within this context. However, I make no attempt to provide encyclopaedic or comprehensive collection of all available research methods and research practices out there. Instead, I only make an introduction to some of the most commonly used research approaches in design. The book is meant to provide emerging researchers with information on how to embark on a research path, how to approach a design problem and develop a research question based on that problem, how to select appropriate research methods, how to communicate their research to the relevant stakeholders, and how to convert their research into a professional design brief that will lead to an effective design solution. 
> 
> The whole manuscript is written as step-by-step guide. In addition to this, through a brief historical overview, I explain how research was introduced to design, and why - in order to set the context. Here I also discuss about the challenges and opportunities of cross-disciplinary research and design. 
> 
> A review of the literature that I have conducted in the course of writing this book implies that there is no one definite position about what design research should include. Even in the field of research—in general terms—there are number of multiple positions for many of the things discussed in this book. Nonetheless, I have made an attempt to select an assortment of some of the most commonly used research approaches within the field of design, and I have tried to interpret them objectively by using a range of academic sources. Then again, as this is not a definite book on the topic but only a guide, not everything has been included. For example, I have not went into the examination of design methods as I believe that this should be covered in a book on design practice, and not in a book on design and research methods. Also, since both design and research are very broad topics, I have omitted certain things and I have not represented some aspects in sufficient depth in an attempt to keep things as simple as possible. That is why I also encourage the readers to use this book in conjunction with other books that deal with specific research approaches in greater depth. 
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> There is no other book like this on the market, as far as I am aware of. It is quite different to anything else I have come across in my lit review.
> 
> Best regards,
> Dr. Gjoko Muratovski 
> 
> 
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