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Design Research Planning and Execution: A comparison between undergraduate design students’ and design research practitioners’ processes of design research planning and execution

Hu, Lingyue
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408659542

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2014, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Industrial, Interior Visual Communication Design.
As more and more design students go into the design research field after their graduation, it becomes increasingly important to understand what students learned about design research at school and what design research practitioners are expected to achieve in industry, so different strategies can be created to better prepare design students to go into the design research field and grow as design research professionals. The process of design research planning and execution as the foundation of every design research project, however, is not well described in the existing literature. In order to help fill this knowledge gap, this thesis research focuses on understanding and comparing design students’ processes of research planning and execution while learning at school and design research practitioners’ processes of research planning and execution in industry. Indepth interviews were conducted with fourteen design research practitioners to understand how practitioners with various levels of experience working in different companies plan and execute their research. Participant observation was conducted with junior design students in their Design Research II course to understand their process of research planning and execution. In addition, students’ presentations, documentations as well as their responses for the journal questions were collected and analyzed in an effort to understand what students learned and didn’t learn in their research course. This research reveals the pattern among experienced practitioners, beginning practitioners and students’ processes of research planning and execution. A gap is identified between what current undergraduate education enables design students to do about design research and what design research practitioners are expected to achieve in industry. This research also has implications for the design research education and design research industry in terms of better preparing students to go into the design research industry and helping beginning practitioners make the transition to experienced practitioners.
Elizabeth Sanders (Advisor)
R. Brian Stone (Committee Member)
David Staley (Committee Member)
178 p.
Design; Education
design research; design research planning and execution; design research practitioners; design education; design research processes;

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  • Hu, L. (2014). Design Research Planning and Execution: A comparison between undergraduate design students’ and design research practitioners’ processes of design research planning and execution [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408659542

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hu, Lingyue. Design Research Planning and Execution: A comparison between undergraduate design students’ and design research practitioners’ processes of design research planning and execution . 2014. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408659542.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hu, Lingyue. "Design Research Planning and Execution: A comparison between undergraduate design students’ and design research practitioners’ processes of design research planning and execution ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408659542

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