Slides from the NSF PI Conference on the Science of Design, [2, 3], held March 1, 2007, in Alexandria, VA.

This connects to the recent Economist article on innovation, and how Vannevar Bush's ideas about innovation have run their course, and are now being supplanted.

Later this week, Humboldt State University is hosting a SoD symposium; the keynote speaker is Nigel Cross, author of Designerly Ways of Knowing. (See this paper for a sample.) In September, he'll be hosting DTRS7: Design Meeting Protocols, which looks at the design process and how it can be better understood and thus improved.

Steps Toward a Science of Design