MANIPULATING DESIGN RESEARCH IN DESIGN EDUCATION FROM EMOTIONAL PERSPECTIVES

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MANIPULATING DESIGN RESEARCH IN DESIGN EDUCATION FROM EMOTIONAL PERSPECTIVES

Journal Title: Academic Research International - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 2

Abstract

After applying design research and practising in design industries for decades, designers now understand that design research is the foundation for creating products, services and systems that respond to market needs. However, not all design research is effectively applied or contributes to the design process for generating predictable design outcomes. In recent years, new aspects of design discipline have been developed. Users have also developed new perspectives on design. These factors have influenced the effectiveness of applying existing design research in the design process and the corresponding design outcomes and have ultimately influenced the competition of enterprise. The scholars who have proposed most of the existing design research have adopted rational approaches. To meet the fast-developing new disciplines of design, finding new insights is necessary. A group of design researchers have proposed alternative design research methods. Exploring more design research directions from a humanistic perspective is appropriate. To address these distinct views, this paper intends to explore the potential use of emotional research procedures in design research and design education. This is a qualitative analysis on the effectiveness of user emotion portfolios in design research for design education. This study provides insight into how students experience, understand, perceive and conceptualise various aspects of the design research process. These findings affirm aspects of emotional research procedures and represent the first step in explaining the different ways in which students’ emotions are implemented in the process of design research.

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Amic G. Ho

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