Design methods

Article summary

Design methods are procedures, techniques, aids, or tools for designing. They offer a number of different kinds of activities that a designer might use within an overall design process. Conventional procedures of design, such as drawing, can be regarded as design methods, but since the 1950s new procedures have been developed that are more usually grouped under the name of "design methods". What design methods have in common is that they "are attempts to make public the hitherto private thinking of designers; to externalise the design process". Design methodology is the broader study of method in design: the study of the principles, practices and procedures of designing.

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1. date of establishment: 1954 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of establishment: 1966 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. date of establishment: 1981 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. date of foundation: 1966 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the date of establishment is "1954". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the date of establishment is "1966". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the date of establishment is "1981". What evidence would count against this claim?
5. The record states that the date of foundation is "1966". What evidence would count against this claim?
6. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
7. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376534649