What is Research through Design?

Research through Design is an exciting field where designers produce scientific research by practicing their craft. With research through design, we record hands-on design knowledge in scientific publications. Until now, you had to go through complex academic literature to make sense of Research through Design. We explain what you must understand, to use and to do Research through Design without spending days reading academic books and papers. This video will save you months, if not years. Chapters 00:00 Intro 02:00 Who is this for and what to expect 05:18 Origin: What is RtD and why does it exist? 12:13 Purpose: What is RtD good for? 15:15 Example: Xerox (1980s) 17:52 Example: Slow Game (2018) 20:29 Example: Drone Chi (2020) 22:27 Recap and Closing Resources: Books • Change by Design by Tim Brown — https://link.amazon/B0fGq86tw • Design Research through Practice by Ilpo Koskinen et al. — https://link.amazon/B02hdAQb6 • Sprint by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz — https://link.amazon/B0fnFdWRi • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries — https://link.amazon/B0bEf5DHL Research papers and essays • An analysis and critique of Research through Design by Zimmerman et al. (2010) — https://doi.org/10.1145/1858171.1858228 • An Annotated Portfolio on Doing Postphenomenology through Research Products by Hauser et al. (2018) — https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196745 • Attending to slowness and temporality with olly and slow game by Odom et al. (2018) — https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173651 • Conversation with Virgil Abloh — https://vestoj.com/does-your-jacket-h... • Designing Drone Chi: Unpacking the Thinking and Making of Somaesthetic Human-Drone Interaction by La Delfa et al. (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395589 • Designing Products with Added Emotional Value by Desmet et al. (2001) — https://doi.org/10.2752/1460692017893... • Discovering and Extracting Knowledge in the Design Project by DiSalvo et al. (2004) — https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/... • Drone Chi: Somaesthetic Human-Drone Interaction by La Delfa et al. (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376786 • From Research Prototype to Research Product by Odom et al. (2016) — https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858447 • Industrial Design at Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1934–1967 by Lesko (1997) — https://academic.oup.com/jdh/article-... • Research in Art and Design by Christopher Frayling — https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/384 • Research through Design — https://ixdf.org/literature/book/the-... • Research through Design as a Method for Interaction Design Research in HCI by Zimmerman et al. (2007) — https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240704 • The Logic of Annotated Portfolios by Bowers (2012) — https://doi.org/10.1145/2317956.2317968 • Unpacking the Thinking and Making Behind a Slow Technology Research Product with Slow Game by Odom et al. (2019) — https://doi.org/10.1145/3325480.3326567 • What should we expect from research through design? by Gaver (2012) — https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208538 Projects, tools, and researchers • Drone Chi — https://www.baytas.net/research/dronechi • Joseph La Delfa — https://cafeciaojoe.com • Qualisys Drone SDK — https://github.com/qualisys/qualisys_... • Slow Game — https://willodom.com/portfolio/portfo... • The Double Diamond — https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/reso... • Will Odom — https://www.willodom.com Journals and conferences • Design Issues — https://direct.mit.edu/desi • Design Studies — https://www.journals.elsevier.com/des... • Research through Design Conference — https://www.researchthroughdesign.org Related episodes • The Profession of Human-Computer Interaction — https://designdisciplin.com/p/hci-pro... • The Story of Design Thinking — https://designdisciplin.com/p/the-sto... • The Three Faces of Design Research — https://designdisciplin.com/p/the-thr...