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

Designing Complementary Meaning

by Susan M. Hagan

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

by Bruce M. Tharp and Stephanie M. Tharp

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

by Ron Wakkary

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

by Jonathan Chapman

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

by Daniela K Rosner

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

by Jenny L. Davis

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

by Stéphane Vial

Translated by Patsy Baudoin

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

by Kristina Höök

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.