Design Methodology - Design Synthesis

ABSTRACT Design Methodology shall be seen as our understanding of how to design; it is an early (emerging late 60ies) and original articulation of teachable and learnable methodics. The insight is based upon two sources: the nature of the designed artefacts and the nature of human designing. Today Design Methodology is part of our practice and our knowledge about designing, and it has been strongly supported by the establishing and work of a design research community.

The aim of this article is to broaden the reader¿s view of designing and Design Methodology. This is done by sketching the development of Design Methodology through time and sketching some important approaches and methods. The development is mainly forced by changing industrial condition, by the growth of IT support for designing, but also by the growth of insight into designing created by design researchers.