Linkography

Linkography is already one of the most influential, elegant, and insightful design research methods. Linkography takes an in-depth and critical look into this remarkable visual language to understand design as a mode of thought. Goldschmidt brings the research method she invented together with the latest data from design research to elucidate the thinking part of design thinking.

Andy Dong, Professor of Engineering, the University of Sydney; author of The Language of Design

Design thinking is one of the best examples of practical creativity. The imagination is at work, but there are concrete and useful results in the designs. *Linkography* confirms that Goldschmidt has contributed mightily towards a sound understanding of design. Her ideas about networks and critical moves will appeal to anyone interested in the dynamic processes underlying design and creativity.

Mark A. Runco, E. Paul Torrance Professor of Creativity Studies, University of Georgia, Athens; editor of Creativity Research Journal

This compact, important book offers the reader the key to enter the world of linkography. It will have a real impact on design research by making fine-grained research into how designers think accessible to all. In Linkography, Gabriela Goldschmidt shows that after decades of borrowing from other academic disciplines, design research has now matured to the point where it is developing research methods relevant to other fields.

Kees Dorst, Professor of Design Innovation, University of Technology, Sydney and Eindhoven University of Technology; author of Understanding Design and co-author of Design Expertise

Design thinking is an important thinking approach. Goldschmidt introduces and describes linkography, a methodology for cognitively based design thinking research, in a highly accessible manner that requires no cognitive science background. This is a unique, foundational book by the developer of linkography that needs to be read by all design researchers.

John Gero, Former Professor of Design Science and Director, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney; co-author of Knowledge-Based Design Systems and editor of Design Computing and Cognition '12