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ENE 62000: Design Cognition and Learning

This guide includes helpful information and resources for students taking ENE 620.

Readings

Personal accounts – pulling from experiences to highlight key ideas and shifts [Could pick one]

Gifts to the Future: Design Reasoning, Design Research and Critical Design Practitioners
McDonnell, J. (2015). She ji, 1(2), pp. 107-117. [Based on a keynote on history of design]
Developing Design as a Discipline
Cross, N. (2018). Journal of Engineering Design, 29(12), pp. 691-708. DOI: 10.1080/09544828.2018.1537481

Pick one: Efforts to understand “design thinking” by pulling from breadth of literature

On Design Thinking
Gram, M. (2019). n+1, Issue 35. [Perspective: Art and visual design]
Rethinking Design Thinking: Part I
Lucy Kimbell (2011) Rethinking Design Thinking: Part I, Design and Culture, 3:3, 285-306, DOI: 10.2752/175470811X13071166525216 [Perspective: Design management]

Resources:

Building a discipline: Indicators of expansion, integration and consolidation in design research across four decades
Christensen, B.T. & Ball, L.J. (2019). Design Studies, 65, pp. 18-34.
"Models of Man" in Design Thinking: The "Bounded Rationality" Episode
Bousbaci, R. (2008). Design Issues, 24(4), pp. 38-52

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Subjects: Engineering, Technology, & Computer Science