User-Responsive Design: Reducing the Risk of Failure
C. Thomas Mitchell
Overview
User-Responsive Design will help you avoid unsatisfied clients by showing how to meaningfully consider the needs of building users throughout the design process. It outlines ways to assess user needs before you begin designing, to ensure that user requirements guide the design process, and to measure a project’s success in meeting its users’ needs.
Written from the perspective of the professional designer, in accessible style, User-Responsive Design presents a range of tested approaches and offers real-life examples of their application.
Contents include:
Pre-Design Exploration
Generating a Client Profile
Programming Analysis
Rewriting the Brief
The Design Phase
Exploring Formal Issues
Exploring Functional Issues
Post-Design Evaluation
Determining the Criteria for Design Success
Assessing Physical Clues to Building Effectiveness
Eliciting Experiential Responses to Building in Use
Applying Simple Evaluation Techniques
Telling the Story of a Space
Acting on practical knowledge of the design context produces highly successful design solutions. User-Responsive Design can show you how.
About the Author
C. Thomas Mitchell is the founder of the Center for Design Process at Indiana University, Bloomington. He holds a B.Arch. from the University of Tennessee; the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, he received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Reading (England). He is the author of Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience, New Thinking in Design: Conversations on Theory and Practice, and Living Design: The Daoist Way of Building. He lives in Nashville, Indiana.
ISBN: 0-393-73105-7
2002
224 pages; 52 illustrations
Hardcover
