Time to post a short list of weblinks that lead to a huge amount of information about designmethods. They all come from different branches, they all look different, some are a little bit older others are up-to-date, but every single one of them provides useful information and shows how many people are intrested in the topic of designmethods:

  1. futurelab, innovation in education (english)
  2. Engine Service Design (english)
  3. MAP-Tool, PRK Universität Karlsruhe (german)
  4. Portal Designmanagment on de.wikipedia.org (german)
  5. TU Delft, the Industrial Design Engineering Wiki (english)
  6. Better Product Design, Tools and Techniques (english)

Thanks Juliane for the inputs and for keeping me updated
regards
Dennis

World Usability Day 2009 (http://www.worldusabilityday.org/)  is approaching design from Cradle to Cradle. Coming from a user-centric perspective and looking beyond form and function, we are exploring the impact design has on our World. The ‘Cradle to Cradle’ approach is to start the design with the premise of using materials that can fully enter a new life cycle by either going back to nature or going back into the design process as a new product. This holistic approach to sustainable design shows how usability can apply to all of what we do and build.

Awesome (Research) Photography-Project combines a lot of methods – from storytelling, still photo survey to ethnography aso. …

weblink: http://welcomebooks.com/oxfordproject/index.html

THE OXFORD PROJECT: Photographs by Peter Feldstein, Text by Stephen G. Bloom, Preface by Gerald Stern, Published by Welcome Books, 264 pages, 10″ x 12 1/2″ more than 300 b/w photographs, flip lenticular cover, Hardcover, $50.00 ($57.50 CAN), ISBN 978-1-59962-048-0

In the storytelling tradition of Studs Terkel and the photographic spirit of Mike Disfarmer, The Oxford Project tells the extraordinary true tale of a seemingly ordinary Midwestern town through the pictures and words of its residents. Equal parts art, American history, cultural anthropology, and human narrative—The Oxford Project is at once personal and universal, surprising and predictable, simple and profound.

online: http://www.fhnw.ch/hgk/idk/aus-und-weiterbildung/modul-forschung-im-masterstudio-design/literatur

Literaturliste der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz aufgeteilt auf die einzelnen Lehrveranstaltungen im Modul Forschung: Forschung und Entwurf, Beobachtung und Gespräch, Fiktion und Entwurf, Experimentalstrategie und Entwurf, Bild und Entwurf, Human Centered Design.