Jack of All Trades, Master of Design

Thesis work complete.  Degree in hand.   And for the first time in a long time, I'm not a student.

But I am renovating my house, which I'm sure will be a learning experience.

http://thishouseneedswork.blogspot.ca

Online Book Stores

I used to think that if I couldn't find it on Amazon or Chapters, it just couldn't be had; at least not for a good price.  However, I just went headlong into the Book Depository, saved a pile of money on a book, and got free shipping. How do you like me now, Nigel Cross?

Also,

http://www.abebooks.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com
http://www.biggerbooks.com
http://www.powells.com

Hitting the Easy Button

So I don't know if I've been living under a rock, but if you need the citation for something, you should definitely go here:

http://www.worldcat.org/

Crank in the title of a book, and hit the little Cite/Export button.  Gives you the citation in a bunch of flavours and allows you to export the citation to popular citation wrangling program.

List of Design Journals

Here is a list of Design Journals that are going to be relevant to my Thesis. These journals are going to bend toward Industrial Design, and design research, as well as education, sketching and drawing. Maybe even CAD.

Design and Culture (Berg)
The Design Journal (Berg)
Design Issues (MIT)
The International Journal of Art & Design Education (Wiley)
Design and Technology Education: An International Journal
Design Studies (Elsevier)

To be continued.

Autopsy of old thesis

http://woodworkingnetwork.com/Making-Furniture-Healthy/2010-05-11/Article.aspx?oid=1072955&tid=

Grounded

Grounded Theory is fashionable this semester because every book in the library about it is taken out - except for one!

Grounded Theory - A practical guide for management, business and market researchers by Christina Goulding is now getting my attention.

It is also significantly lighter than the previous two tomes. :D

http://www.amazon.com/Grounded-Theory-Practical-Management-Researchers/dp/0761966838/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268103303&sr=8-4

We'll see were this takes me.

Evaluation of Human Work

I'm reading a couple of chapters from Wilson and Corlett's 'Evaluation of Human Work'. HCI evaluation seems to be still in its infancy but the important thing to note is that a program should always be evaluated against something - another program, a set of standards, or a given set of desirable metrics.

I'm also reacquainting myself with the research methods in 'Interaction Design' by Sharpe, Preece and Rogers.


http://www.amazon.ca/Evaluation-Human-Work-John-Wilson/dp/0415267579/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1/176-5516164-9253348?ie=UTF8&qid=1267907828&sr=1-1-fkmr0

http://www.amazon.ca/Interaction-Design-Beyond-Human-Computer/dp/0470018666/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267908017&sr=1-1