Design Thinking, Design Theory
The Design Thinking/Design Theory series seeks to develop vital conversations to help designers and researchers serve business, industry, and the public sector for positive social and economic outcomes. This series explores strategic design as an opportunity to create value through innovative products and services. It emphasizes design as service that succeeds through rigorous creativity, critical inquiry, and an ethics informed by respect for people, for nature, and for the world we shape through design.
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The Space between Look and Read
The Space between Look and Read
Designing Complementary Meaning
ISBN: 9780262545471
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 18, 2023
Unleashing the potential that can be found in the space between words and images.
Discursive Design
Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things
ISBN: 9780262546553
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
Exploring how design can be used for good—prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change.
Things We Could Design
For More Than Human-Centered Worlds
ISBN: 9780262542999
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 24, 2021
How posthumanist design enables a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, with whom we are entangled.
Meaningful Stuff
Design That Lasts
ISBN: 9780262045728
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2021
An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more.
Critical Fabulations
Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
ISBN: 9780262542685
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 29, 2020
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
How Artifacts Afford
The Power and Politics of Everyday Things
ISBN: 9780262044110
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 11, 2020
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective.
Being and the Screen
How the Digital Changes Perception. Published in one volume with A Short Treatise on Design
ISBN: 9780262043168
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 12, 2019
How digital technology is profoundly renewing our sense of what is real and how we perceive.
Designing with the Body
Somaesthetic Interaction Design
ISBN: 9780262038560
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 13, 2018
Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle.
Pretense Design
Surface Over Substance
ISBN: 9780262039482
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2019
How some design appears to be something that it is not—by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving.
Making Design Theory
ISBN: 9780262036658
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 2017
A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.

The Space between Look and Read
The Space between Look and Read
Designing Complementary Meaning
ISBN: 9780262545471
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 18, 2023
Unleashing the potential that can be found in the space between words and images.
Discursive Design
Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things
ISBN: 9780262546553
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
Exploring how design can be used for good—prompting self-reflection, igniting the imagination, and affecting positive social change.
Things We Could Design
For More Than Human-Centered Worlds
ISBN: 9780262542999
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 24, 2021
How posthumanist design enables a world in which humans share center stage with nonhumans, with whom we are entangled.
Meaningful Stuff
Design That Lasts
ISBN: 9780262045728
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2021
An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more.
Critical Fabulations
Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
ISBN: 9780262542685
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 29, 2020
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
How Artifacts Afford
The Power and Politics of Everyday Things
ISBN: 9780262044110
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 11, 2020
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective.
Being and the Screen
How the Digital Changes Perception. Published in one volume with A Short Treatise on Design
ISBN: 9780262043168
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 12, 2019
How digital technology is profoundly renewing our sense of what is real and how we perceive.
Designing with the Body
Somaesthetic Interaction Design
ISBN: 9780262038560
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 13, 2018
Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle.
Pretense Design
Surface Over Substance
ISBN: 9780262039482
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2019
How some design appears to be something that it is not—by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving.
Making Design Theory
ISBN: 9780262036658
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 1, 2017
A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.