http://www.productdesignhub.com/articles/35-design-insights/55-how-do-you-design

http://process-design.org/bilder.html

Cheers Christian

There is a great quote in Ralph Caplan’s classic book By Design from Charles Eames about the process that he and Eero Saarinen used in one of their early collaborations. It’s lengthy so I won’t quote it here, but I have it in an old blog post: http://www.richardsona.com/main/2006/2/22/the-difficult-things-are-easy-its-the-simple-things-which-are-difficult.html

Would be fun to see this one broken down as a graphic!

“Great cities are not like towns, only larger”, urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs observed almost half a century ago. But what then is it that makes a city into a city? Now that telecom operators, handset builders, and media companies are churning out new media technologies that promise to drastically alter our sense of place, this question has once again become very urgent. Whether we call them locative media, contextual media, or placed-based media, these technologies promise to change the way we interact with our surroundings. Let me call this new way of experiencing the city “MySpace urbanism”.

http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/locative-media-and-the-city

My favorite of all time, however, is still this one:

Michael Beirut on his design process: “When I do a design project, I begin by listening carefully to you as you talk about your problem and read whatever background material I can find that relates to the issues you face. If you’re lucky, I have also accidentally acquired some firsthand experience with your situation. Somewhere along the way an idea for the design pops into my head from out of the blue. I can’t really explain that part; it’s like magic. Sometimes it even happens before you have a chance to tell me that much about your problem! Now, if it’s a good idea, I try to figure out some strategic justification for the solution so I can explain it to you without relying on good taste you may or may not have. Along the way, I may add some other ideas, either because you made me agree to do so at the outset, or because I’m not sure of the first idea. At any rate, in the earlier phases hopefully I will have gained your trust so that by this point you’re inclined to take my advice. I don’t have any clue how you’d go about proving that my advice is any good except that other people — at least the ones I’ve told you about — have taken my advice in the past and prospered. In other words, could you just sort of, you know…trust me?” (http://www.designobserver.com/archives/entry.html?id=17485)