Design methods: Difference between revisions

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It seemed as if many different groups latched onto John Christopher Jones book [http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471284963.html/ Design Methods], with its alternative message of using design as a framework for exploration and improvement of any area of exploration, but directly addressing engineering, computerization and related fields – though not always as how either John Christopher Jones or [[Christopher Alexander]] expected. Three "camps" seemed to emerge to integrate the initial work in design methods:

* [[Behaviorism]] interpreted design methods as a way to describe human behavior. It's clinical approach tended to abstract design methods within the abstraction of behaviorism – analogus to [[epistemologicaltaxonomic]] activities.

* [[Reductivism]] interpreted design methods from a scientific approach, breaking design methods down into small constituent parts. It's scientific approach tended to abstract design methods within the abstraction of science – analogus to [[taxonomicepistemological]] activities.

* [[Phenomenology]] interpreted design methods from a experiential approach, describing design methods as human experience. It's approach tended to abstract design methods within the world of [[perception]]