"The study of design – and more specifically, the quality of the process of design – has been shown to have high impact and leverage on the quality and success of engineered products. As design research does not fall into any one disciplinary body of knowledge, there is a need to consolidate and organize the many design research methods used, develop a community of design educators and practitioners to evaluate and categorize those methods, and educate the next generation of design innovators in appropriate methods."

 

This is where theDesignExchange comes in--a web community of design educators and practitioners aimed towards facilitating the exchange of all things design related.

 

Team members:

Design: Carina Boo, Gordon Yang
Development: Keien Ohta, Candy Chang
Taxonomy: Yipu Zheng, Lauren Zakskorn, Qian Zhang
PhD Students: Celeste Roschuni, Cesar Torres
Faculty: Professor Alice Agogino

 

Currently at the stage of performing Heuristic Evaluation/Initial User Research: http://bit.ly/1fwRzk7

 

The current:

 

The future:

The website was redesigned to center its emphasis around the Methods, Case Studies, and Discussions tabs.

A look into the profile page of a user.

Members of theDesignExchange are also given the ability to save their browsed methods, case studies and discussions into what we call "Sets."