Comments on: Making design research useful http://andreaslloyd.dk/2007/09/making-design-research-useful/ Wed, 16 May 2012 10:25:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andreas http://andreaslloyd.dk/2007/09/making-design-research-useful/comment-page-1/#comment-32280 Andreas Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:49:43 +0000 http://eskar.dk/andreas/blog/?p=271#comment-32280 Just found Dori Tunstall's blog. She's another design anthropologist. In a recent post, she's <a href="http://dori3.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/08/design-anthropo.html" rel="nofollow">contemplating the nature of design anthropology</a>, and she quotes a comment from Roberta Feldman: <emphasis>[Design anthropology is] trying to take social meaning and process and tie it to the act of designing, tie it closely to the actual decisions that designers have to make. You provide useful information and methods to inform specific design activities.</emphasis> Just found Dori Tunstall’s blog. She’s another design anthropologist. In a recent post, she’s contemplating the nature of design anthropology, and she quotes a comment from Roberta Feldman:

[Design anthropology is] trying to take social meaning and process and tie it to the act of designing, tie it closely to the actual decisions that designers have to make. You provide useful information and methods to inform specific design activities.

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