BlogSchmog | We live as if the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be.

The “Research through design” talk—given at CHI 2007 by three CMU profs, John Zimmerman, Jodi Forlizzi and Shelley Evenson—was particularly nice to hear as a companion in the same session to Eli Blevis’ paper on sustainable design. Their framework for defining design research within the HCI community is culled from four years of workshops, interviews and a review of literature. And like Eli’s work, they believe design to be the intended transfer of a current world state to a preferred one.