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  • Briefing and Reframing 
    Paton Rebecca; Dorst Kees (DAB documents, 2010)
    The ability to reframe a problematic situation in new and interesting ways is widely seen as one of the key characteristics of design thinking, and as one that would lend itself to application beyond the traditional design ...
  • Briefing And Reframing: A Situated Practice 
    Paton B.; Dorst Kees (Elsevier Science Ltd., 2011)
    The ability to reframe a problematic situation in new and interesting ways is widely seen as one of the key characteristics of design thinking. In this paper we study how experienced designers have professionalised the ...
  • Can existing usability techniques prevent tomorrow's usability problems? 
    Harkema Christelle; Luyk Ilse; Dorst Kees; Brombacher Aarnout Cornelis (The Design Society, 2011)
    Product usability is a product quality that ensures efficient and effective products which satisfy users. In spite of the many usability techniques that are available many users still experience usability problems when ...
  • Co-Evolution in Design Practice 
    Reymen Isabelle; Dorst Kees; Smulders Frido (CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), 2009)
    The concept of co-evolution is considered a key characteristic of designing. Several authors have described design thinking processes as the coevolution of design problem and design solution. The theoretical grounding of ...
  • The Core Of 'design Thinking' And Its Application 
    Dorst Kees (Elsevier Science Ltd., 2011)
    In the last few years, 'Design Thinking' has gained popularity - it is now seen as an exciting new paradigm for dealing with problems in sectors as far a field as IT, Business, Education and Medicine. This potential success ...
  • Creativity in the design process: co-evolution of problem solution 
    Dorst Kees; Cross Nigel (Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001)
    Empirical data on design processes were obtained from a set of protocol studies of nine experienced industrial designers, whose designs were evaluated on overall quality and on a variety of aspects including creativity. ...
  • The design analogy a model for moral problem solving 
    Dorst Kees; Royakkers L (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2006)
    In this paper we explore an analogy between design and ethics, first drawn by Whitbeck. We investigate her claim that such an analogy can help to understand moral problems and aid us in dealing with them by suggesting ...
  • Design and use as plans an action-theoretical account 
    Houkes Wybo; Vermaas Pieter; Dorst Kees; De Vries Marc (Elsevier Science Ltd., 2002)
    In this paper, we present an action-theoretical account of use and design. Central to this account is the notion of a user plan, which leads us to distinguish a cycle of plan design from one of artefact design. We comment ...
  • Design Expertise 
    Lawson Bryan; Dorst Kees (Architectural Press (Elsevier), 2009)
    'Design Expertise' explores what it takes to become an expert designer.It examines the perception of expertise in design and asks what knowledge, skills, attributes and experiences are necessary in order to design well. ...
  • Design Intelligence 
    Dorst Kees (Intellect, 2009)
    These days, same designers are successfullywarking on verycomplex problems that only a couple of years ago seemed far outside of their range and beyond their capabilities. They have discovered a hidden strength in design ...
  • Design Problems and Design Paradoxes 
    Dorst Kees (Palgrave MacMillan Ltd, 2004)
  • Design Research: A revolution-waiting-to-happen 
    Dorst Kees (Elsevier Science Ltd., 2008)
    Thomas Kuhn described scientific progress as a process of leaps and bounds. Long periods of `normal science¿, in which a research community works within a well-established and fruitful paradigm, end when there is a build-up ...
  • Design Thinking and Analysis: A case study in design for social wellbeing 
    Dorst Kees; Tietz Christian (Research Publishing, 2011)
    In the last few years, 'Design Thinking' has gained popularity - it is now seen as an exciting new paradigm for dealing with problems in sectors as a far afield as IT, Business, Education and Medicine. Most fields that are ...
  • Exploring the development process of grassroots social entrepreneurship 
    Masse Simone; Dorst Kees (Center for Corporate Values and Responsibility (CVR), 2007)
    This study explores the development process of seven cases of grassroots social entrepreneurship that contain the establishment of multi-sector partnerships. The paper suggests three phases in the development process and ...
  • John Gero's Function-Behaviour-Structure Model of Designing: A Critical Analysis. 
    Vermaas Pieter; Dorst Kees (Springer, 2001)
    Over the last 12 years, the design research group at the Key Centre for Computing at the University of Sydney has been developing an extensive model of designing, looking at designing as a process in which the concepts ...
  • Lace: contemporary textiles exhibition and new works 
    Heffer Cecilia; Dorst Kees; Shepherd Rosemary; Williamson Liz; Carnie Bruce; Trouton Lycia (DAB DOCS, 2007)
  • Layers of Design: Understanding Design Practice 
    Dorst Kees (International Association of Societies of Design Research, 2009)
    Most thinking about design, and indeed most research into design, has focussed on what happens within design projects. Yet when we study design and architectural firms/departments more carefully, we observe several layers ...
  • Modelling Co-Evolution in Design Practice 
    Smulders Frido; Reyman Isabelle; Dorst Kees (The 17th International Conference on Engineering Design, 2009)
    Co-evolution is considered as a key characteristic of designing. Several authors have described design thinking processes as the co-evolution of design problem and design solution. 1Is theoretical grounding is, however, ...
  • The Nature of Design Thinking 
    Dorst Kees (DAB Documents, 2010)
    In the last few years, 'Design Thinking' has gained popularity - it is now seen as an exciting new paradigm for dealing with problems in sectors as a far afield as IT, Business, Education and Medicine. This potential success ...
  • On the conceptual framework of John Gero's FBS-model and the prescriptive aims of design methodology 
    Vermaas Pieter; Dorst Kees (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2007)
    In this paper we consider the FunctioneBehavioureStructure model of designing in the version as developed by John Gero and collaborators. We identify two problems: the absence of a stable definition of function, and ...