Nigel Cross

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Nigel Cross is affiliated with the following schools: Open University, Delft University of Technology

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PhD Design Open University

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According to Wikipedia, Nigel Cross is a British academic, a design researcher and educator, Emeritus Professor of Design Studies at The Open University, United Kingdom, where he was responsible for developing the first distance-learning courses in design in the early 1970s. He was an editor of the journal Design Studies from its inception in 1979, Editor in Chief 1984-2017 and Emeritus Editor in Chief 2018-23. Cross helped clarify and develop the concept of design thinking related to the development of design as an academic discipline. He is one of the key people of the Design Research Society.

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Nigel Cross's Published Works

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Published Works

Designerly ways of knowing (2006) (2681)
Creativity in the design process: co-evolution of problem–solution (2001) (2018)
Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design (1994) (1675)
Designerly Ways of Knowing: Design Discipline Versus Design Science (2001) (1337)
Expertise in Design: an overview (2004) (953)
Developments in design methodology (1984) (769)
Engineering design methods (1989) (692)
Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work (2011) (676)
Design cognition: results from protocol and other empirical studies of design activity (2001) (499)
Analysing design activity (1996) (488)
Observations of teamwork and social processes in design (1995) (391)
Design Research: a disciplined conversation (1999) (332)
Solution driven versus problem driven design: strategies and outcomes (2006) (305)
Natural intelligence in design (1999) (274)
Descriptive models of creative design: application to an example (1997) (256)
Forty years of design research (2007) (251)
The Nature and Nurture of Design Ability (1990) (247)
Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design (4th ed.) (2008) (218)
Design Thinking (2011) (211)
Research in design Thinking (1992) (180)
Science and design methodology: A review (1993) (171)
Models of the design process: integrating across the disciplines (1991) (161)
Expertise in engineering design (1998) (156)
From a Design Science to a Design Discipline: Understanding Designerly Ways of Knowing and Thinking (2007) (153)
Design method and scientific method (1981) (140)
Listening for a change: Oral testimony and development (1993) (137)
Modelling the Design Process in Engineering and in Architecture (1992) (125)
Creative cognition in design: processes of exceptional designers (2002) (116)
The problem of design problems (2003) (115)
Winning by design: the methods of Gordon Murray, racing car designer (1996) (114)
Design Expertise Amongst Student Designers (1994) (93)
Personality and learning preferences of students in design and design-related disciplines (1996) (89)
Creativity in Design: Analyzing and Modeling the Creative Leap (2017) (75)
A History of Design Methodology (1993) (74)
The Automated Architect (1980) (72)
Design Methodology and Relationships with Science (1993) (68)
The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street (1988) (58)
The Expertise of Exceptional Designers (2003) (48)
Intelligent support for communication in design teams: garment shape specifications in the knitwear industry (2000) (46)
Design education in the information age (2003) (45)
At the desert's edge: Oral histories from the Sahel (1991) (44)
Styles of learning, designing and computing (1985) (40)
Developing design as a discipline (2018) (33)
Creative thinking by expert designers (2004) (31)
The coming of post-industrial design (1981) (30)
Ways of listening (2002) (29)
Design participation: proceedings of the Design Research Society's conference, Manchester, September 1971; (1972) (28)
Can a Machine Design? (2001) (26)
Achieving Pleasure from Purpose the Methods of Kenneth Grange, Product Designer (2001) (25)
The Routledge Companion to Design Research, Paul Rodgers, Joyce Yee (Eds.). Routledge, Abingdon UK (2015), 522 pp., ISBN: 978 0415 70607 0 (2017) (18)
A brief history of the Design Thinking Research Symposium series (2018) (17)
Design studies special issue: expertise in design (2004) (15)
Man-made futures : readings in society, technology and design (1974) (13)
Analysing Design Behaviour: The Design Thinking Research Symposia Series (2007) (12)
Expertise in Professional Design (2018) (12)
Documenting oral history in the African Sahel (1992) (10)
Design Education for Laypeople (1979) (10)
An introduction to design methods (1979) (9)
Elicitation of Rules for Graphic Design Evaluation (1996) (9)
Engineering design methods : strategies and tactics for product design (1994) (8)
Editing Design Studies - and how to improve the likelihood of your paper being published (2019) (8)
Book ReviewDesign ExpertiseDesign Expertise, Bryan Lawson and Kees Dorst, Architectural Press, Oxford, UK (2009) 321 pp., ISBN 9781856176705, £29.99 (2010) (7)
Evidence for hope : the search for sustainable development : the story of the International Institute for Environment and Development (2003) (6)
The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street@@@Innovators and Preachers: The Role of the Editor in Victorian England (1987) (6)
The Sahel, the peoples' right to development (1990) (6)
An analysis of architectural visual reasoning in conceptual sketching via Computational Sketch Analysis (CSA) (1999) (6)
Small Group Design Activity and Requirements on Collaborative Technologies (2000) (6)
Understanding design thinking (2010) (5)
The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist (2011) (4)
Creative thinking in design: an introduction (2007) (4)
Design Thinking as a Form of Intelligence (2023) (4)
The Sahel: the people's right to development. (1990) (3)
Undocumented lives: Britain's unauthorised migrant workers (1988) (3)
Design education in the Open (2020) (3)
Computers and the development of design decision making skills (1994) (3)
Design: the problem comes first (1985) (3)
Revolution and the press in Nicaragua: The press, the opposition and the Sandinistas — and how their disputes are reported abroad. (1982) (2)
The Competitive Innovator (1995) (2)
Editorial: Design as a discipline (2019) (2)
Sahel Oral History Project (1994) (2)
How things don't work (1979) (2)
The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for Design, Klaus Krippendorff. Taylor and Francis CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA (2006), 422 pp, £44.99, ISBN: 0415322200 (2007) (2)
The Development of Design Methodology in Architecture, Urban Planning and Industrial Design (1986) (2)
Engineering and the mind's eye: Eugene S. Ferguson, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, (1992) £22.50, 194 pp, ISBN 0262 061473 (1994) (2)
Design Research Now (2007) (1)
Computers and people: Ann Majchrzak, Tien-Chien Chang, Woodrow Barfield, Ray Eberts and Gavriel Salvendy, Human Aspects of Computer-Aided Design, Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia and London, 1986. 278 pp., £25.00 (1987) (1)
Book ReviewShape: Talking About Seeing and Doing, George Stiny, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2006), 422 pp., ISBN 0262195313, £24.95 (2007) (1)
Editorial to: Common ground (2003) (1)
Designing information technology in the post-modern age (1997) (1)
Editorial: Back to the future (2017) (1)
Editorial: Expertise in design. Introduction (2004) (1)
Design education at secondary level: The design Council, London (1980) 24 pp, £1.50 (1981) (0)
The Utopian design policy of the Shakers (1979) (0)
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What is a designer,: Norman Potter Hyphen Press, Reading (1980) 215 pp, £9.75 (cloth) £4.50 (paper) (1981) (0)
Marketing Case Studies (1992) (0)
Design Studies : Vol 43 March 2016 (2016) (0)
The organizational implications of computer technology for professional work: Stephen E. Little, Avebury (Gower Publishing), Aldershot, UK (1988), 218 pages, £19.50 (1989) (0)
Scale rules: Victor Papanek Design for human scale Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, (1983), 167 pp., $17.50 (1985) (0)
Design skills: past, present and futur (1995) (0)
Inspiring Designers: a Sourcebook, Paul Rodgers. Black Dog Publishing, London, UK (2004), 334pp., £24.95, ISBN: 1 90477200 5 (2005) (0)
Design Studies : Vol 42 January 2016 (2016) (0)
Practical studies in systematic design (1989) (0)
Namibia Orature Project (1994) (0)
The Linz Café: Christopher Alexander Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA. Löcker Verlag, Vienna, Austria (1981) 94pp, $19.95, £13.50 (1983) (0)
Survey of a Project-Based Course. (1977) (0)
Redefining designing: from form to experience (1995) (0)
How creative design happens (2004) (0)
People matter more — IT users and their IT machines (1984) (0)
Design procedures: Zunde, J M Longman Technician Series, London, UK (1982) 227pp £4.95 (1985) (0)
Obituary: Sydney Gregory (1989) (0)
New product development: an introduction to a multifunctional process (1998) (0)
Frontiers of design: 27–29 September 1979, London. Organized by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers (1980) (0)
Book review (1993) (0)
Building design for trainees (1984) (0)
Learning by doing (1983) (0)
Book reviewPractical studies in systematic design: V. Hubka, M.M. Andreasen, W.E. Eder, Butterworths, London, (1988) 152 pp £24.00 (1989) (0)
Strategic Thinking in Design Practice (2018) (0)
Design thinking: What just happened? (2023) (0)
Utopia: Ian Tod and Michael Wheeler Utopia Orbis Publishing, London (9) 160 pp £6.50 (1980) (0)
Design by choice (1982) (0)
Design research: methods and perspectives, Brenda Laurel (Ed.). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2003), £25.95, 334 pp, ISBN: 0 262 12263 4 (2005) (0)
Stories from the desert: Sahelian people remember. (1994) (0)
Exam appreciation (2020) (0)
Chance would be a fine thing: Jones, J C Essays in design Wiley, Chichester, UK (1984) 336pp £9.95 ISBN 0471902 (1985) (0)
Learning, Designing and Computing: The Relevance of Cognitive Styles to Computer Aided Design Education (1989) (0)
Book ReviewWhat Designers Know, Bryan Lawson, Elsevier Architecture Press, Oxford, UK (2004), 127pp., £18.99, ISBN: 0 75066448 7 (2005) (0)

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