Topic > The Design Way: Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman

The Design Way lays out the fundamental principles of design by forming a diagram for approaching the world. Authors Harold G. Nelson, Nierenberg Distinguished Professor of Design at Carnegie Mellon University and Erik Stolterman is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington (Design and Design Theory) provide an in-depth look at struggles to understand and interact with the complex world we live in. Nelson is also a senior instructor in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School and president of the Advanced Design Institute. Currently, Stolterman's main work concerns interaction design, design philosophy and theory, information technology and society, information systems design, and philosophy of technology, grounded in careful analytical studies of everyday practice of users and professionals dealing with interactive artefacts with a strong emphasis of construction theory. Stolterman combines this approach with a strong critical and theoretical analysis of current practice (In...