Designing for Society: Products and Services for a Better World - Softcover

Nynke Tromp; Paul Hekkert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472567986 ISBN 13: 9781472567987

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018

Synopsis

An insightful and hands-on tool for designers (professionals and students) who wish to use design to counteract social problems. Viewing the artifact as a unique means of facilitating behavioural change to realize social impact, the book goes beyond the current trend of applying design thinking to develop social and public services, and beyond the idea of the designer as a facilitator of social and local change.

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Review:

"Everything that's designed has effects on society, and how we live, and designers have a responsibility to understand this, and design with attention to the impacts their work can have, now and for future generations. In Designing for Society, Nynke Tromp and Paul Hekkert give us a thoughtful and well-informed set of ways of approaching this complex and wide-ranging subject, demonstrating the power of designing products, services, and systems with a focus on social value." --Dan Lockton, Chair of Design Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, USA

"To the large numbers of students and professionals who want to 'do good' and to make a difference in the world, this book offers a wealth of insights and guidelines. The 'society-centred design practice' outlined by the authors is both theoretically exciting and useful in practice." --Erik Stolterman Bergqvist, Professor of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

About the Author:

Nynke Tromp works as a design researcher at the department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology and is a member of the social design consultancy, KVD Reframing, based in Amsterdam.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1472567986
• ISBN 13: 9781472567987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224