The semantic turn: a new foundation for design

History and Aim Brief History of Product Semantics Trajectory of Artificiality The Changing Environment of Design Redesigning Design (Discourse) Basic concepts of human-centered design Predecessors The Axiomaticity of Meaning Sense, Meaning, and Context Stakeholders in Design Second-Order Understanding Ethics in a Design Culture Meaning of Artifacts in Use Interfaces Disruptions and Usability Recognition Explorations Reliance Design Principles Meaning of Artifacts in Language Language Categories Characters Identities Verbal Metaphors Narratives Culture Meanings in the Lives of Artifacts Life Cycles Stakeholder Networks Projects Genetic Meanings Critical Sizes of Supportive Communities Whole Life Cycle Accounting Meanings in an Ecology of Artifacts Ecology Ecology of Artifacts Ecological Meanings Technological Cooperatives Mythology Design methods, research, and a science for design A New Science for Design Methods for Creating Spaces of Possible Futures Methods for Inquiring into Stakeholders' Concepts and Motivations Human-Centered Design Methods Validating Semantic Claims Advancing Design Discourse Distantiations Semiotics Cognitivism Ergonomics Aesthetics Functionalism Marketing Textualism Roots in the Ulm School of Design? Bill's Functionalism Bense's Information Philosophy Maldonado's Semiotics Chernyshevsky's Political Economy of Aesthetics Rittel's Methodology Barriers to Considerations of Meaning and Some Exceptions REFERENCES INDEX