
Linkography
Unfolding the Design Process
Gabriela Goldschmidt(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 14. March 2014
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-262-02719-9 (ISBN)
Description
The description of a method for the notation and analysis of the creative process in design, drawing on insights from design practice and cognitive psychology.This book presents linkography, a method for the notation and analysis of the design process. Developed by Gabriela Goldschmidt in an attempt to clarify designing, linkography documents how designers think, generate ideas, put them to the test, and combine them into something meaningful. With linkography, Goldschmidt shows that there is a logic to the creative process-that it is not, as is often supposed, pure magic. Linkography draws on design practice, protocol analysis, and insights from cognitive psychology.Goldschmidt argues that the generation of ideas (and their inspection and adjustment) evolves over a large number of small steps, which she terms design moves. These combine in a network of moves, and the patterns of links in the networks manifest a "good fit," or congruence, among the ideas. Goldschmidt explains what parts of the design process can be observed and measured in a linkograph, describing its features and notation conventions. The most significant elements in a linkograph are critical moves, which are particularly rich in links. Goldschmidt presents studies that show the importance of critical moves in design thinking; describes cases that demonstrate linkography's effectiveness in studying the creative process in design (focusing on the good fit); and offers thirteen linkographic studies conducted by other researchers that show the potential of linkography in design thinking research and beyond. Linkography is the first book-length treatment of an approach to design thinking that has already proved influential in the field.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
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Cloth over boards
Illustrations
47 figures
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-02719-9 (9780262027199)
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Gabriela Goldschmidt is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.