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Influential Thinkers

Nigel Cross

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Nigel Cross advanced the idea that designers possess distinctive forms of knowledge and reasoning, different from those of the sciences and humanities.

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01Methods and Frameworks

Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design by Nigel Cross

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Designerly Ways of Knowing by Nigel Cross

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Bruce Archer offers humanities, science and design as being equal points of a triad of disciplines

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Bruce Archer offers humanities, science and design as being equal points of a triad of disciplines

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Christopher Alexander Publishes Notes on the Synthesis of Form

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Design Thinking by Peter Rowe

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