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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How Artifacts Afford
The Power and Politics of Everyday Things
ISBN: 9780262554107
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 4, 2025
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective.
Design Things
ISBN: 9780262553773
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 17, 2024
A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things.
Frame Innovation
Create New Thinking by Design
ISBN: 9780262550963
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 22, 2024
How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems.
Taking [A]part
The Politics and Aesthetics of Participation in Experience-Centered Design
ISBN: 9780262552592
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 2, 2024
A critical inquiry into the value and experience of participation in design research.
Designing with the Body
Somaesthetic Interaction Design
ISBN: 9780262551465
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2024
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.
Design Strategy
Challenges in Wicked Problem Territory
ISBN: 9780262546812
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 14, 2023
A new approach to addressing the contemporary world's most difficult challenges, such as climate change and poverty.
Design, Empathy, Interpretation
Design, Empathy, Interpretation
Toward Interpretive Design Research
ISBN: 9780262546928
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 12, 2023
A new, empathic approach to design research, drawn from the informed experiences of a leading design research program in Finland.
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.
Situated Design Methods
ISBN: 9780262544726
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 14, 2021
A handbook of situated design methods, with analyses and cases that range from designing study processes to understanding customer experiences to developing interactive installations.

How Artifacts Afford
The Power and Politics of Everyday Things
ISBN: 9780262554107
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 4, 2025
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective.
Design Things
ISBN: 9780262553773
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 17, 2024
A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things.
Frame Innovation
Create New Thinking by Design
ISBN: 9780262550963
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 22, 2024
How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems.
Taking [A]part
The Politics and Aesthetics of Participation in Experience-Centered Design
ISBN: 9780262552592
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 2, 2024
A critical inquiry into the value and experience of participation in design research.
Designing with the Body
Somaesthetic Interaction Design
ISBN: 9780262551465
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 12, 2024
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.
Design Strategy
Challenges in Wicked Problem Territory
ISBN: 9780262546812
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 14, 2023
A new approach to addressing the contemporary world's most difficult challenges, such as climate change and poverty.
Design, Empathy, Interpretation
Design, Empathy, Interpretation
Toward Interpretive Design Research
ISBN: 9780262546928
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 12, 2023
A new, empathic approach to design research, drawn from the informed experiences of a leading design research program in Finland.
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.
Situated Design Methods
ISBN: 9780262544726
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 14, 2021
A handbook of situated design methods, with analyses and cases that range from designing study processes to understanding customer experiences to developing interactive installations.