Emerging Approaches to
Research and Design Practice
Research and design go hand in hand, and new
strategies in both disciplines are introducing robust
approaches to complicated problems of design
and creation.

COVER STORY

6 Designing Games:
Why and How
Sus Lundgren

ON MODELING

13 An Evolving Map of Design
Practice and Design Research
Liz Sanders

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THE WAY I SEE IT

18 Signifiers, Not Affordances
Donald A. Norman

FEATURE

20 User Experience Design
for Ubiquitous Computing
Mike Kuniavsky

FEATURE

23 Cultural Theory and Design:
Identifying Trends by Looking
at the Action in the Periphery
Christine Satchell

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LIFELONG INTERACTIONS

26 Understanding Children’s
Interactions: Evaluating
Children’s Interactive Products
Janet C. Read, Panos Markopoulos