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Frontmatter

A Letter from the Editors

Michael R. Gibson and Keith M. Owens

Feature Well

Theoretical Speculation

Design Exploration as a Research Discovery Phase: Integrating the Graduate Design Thesis with Research in the Social Sciences

Matthew Peterson
Research Paper

Design Thinking? Thank an Engineer

Steven McCarthy
Research Paper

From the Observable to the Explorable: Investigating Creative Research in Design as a Means for Guiding Critical Action

Brooke Chornyak and Tania Allen
Visual Essay with Accompanying Prose

Processing the Pandemic

Meaghan A. Dee
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A Case Study Report Contextualized Within a Position Paper

Examining the Influence of Positionality on the Facilitation of Design Processes

Terresa Moses and Lisa Elzey Mercer
Long-Form Case Study Report

Supporting Student Mental Health in an Information Design Class by Employing Approaches Derived from Positive Psychology

Yvette Shen
Critical Book Reviews

Collaboration in Design Education

Review by Meaghan A. Dee and Jessica Jacobs

Frontmatter

Knowledge Designs and Illusions/Delusions of Agency

Johanna Drucker, Ph.D.

Feature Well

Theoretical Speculation

How to Do Things with Pictures: The Experience of Challenging Imagery in Visual Media

Matthew Peterson, Ph.D.
Theoretical Speculation

Designing Philosophy

Tyson E. Lewis, Ph.D. & Lama Al Harkan
Virtual Essay

This is How You Become Number One: Some Very Helpful Thoughts and Drawings by Alex Egner

Alex Egner
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Back Matter

Critical Book Review

Practice-based Design Research

Edited by Laurene Vaughan
Holly Willis, Ph.D.
Critical Book Review

Design and the Creation of Value

by John Heskett (edited by Clive Dilnot and Suzan Boztepe)
Kenneth Fitzgerald
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Critical Book Review

Digital Design Theory: Readings from the Field

by Helen Armstrong
Kelly Murdoch-Kitt & Marty Maxwell Lane

Introduction

It's time to stir the pot...

Keith M. Owens and Michael R. Gibson

Frontmatter

Journaling through the Back Door

Steven McCarthy

A New North American Design Research Organization

John Zimmerman, Carlos Teixera, Erik Stolterman & Jodi Forlizzi

Feature Well

Theoretical Speculation

The Concept of the Design Discipline

Paul A. Rodgers & Craig Bremner
Theoretical Speculation

First Issues, First Words: Vision in the Making

Jessica Barness
Theoretical Speculation

Tip of the Icon: Examining Socially Symbolic Indexical Signage

Terry Dobson & Saeri Cho Dobson
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Back Matter

Critical Book Review

Developing Citizen Designers

Edited by Elizabeth Resnick
Ann McDonald
Critical Book Review

Leap Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation

Edited by Mariana Amatullo
Annabel Pretty
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Critical Book Review

Are We There Yet? Insights on How to Lead by Design

by Sam Bucolo
Heather Corcoran
Critical Book Review

Mapping the Grid of Swiss Graphic Design: A Review of 100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design

Edited by Christian Brändle
Richard Doubleday