New Journal: Craft Research is a new peer-reviewed journal published by Intellect, edited by Kristina Niedderer and Katherine Townsend, is the first academic journal dedicated to developing and advancing contemporary craft practice and theory through research.
Special Issue of the on-line journal Re-public (ISSN 1791-857X) on "Innovative Service Design for All" is now freely available on-line in English and Greek.
For engineering designers and design researchers, the new edition of Professional Engineer is online for free now. This is published by the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for April 6 is now online. Testing how well people understand a link's first 11 characters shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items.
Table of Contents: International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD). Special Edition on 'New Socio-Technical Insights in Interaction Design'.Volume 1, Issue 2, April-June 2009. Information and communication technology is increasing the means by which eople relate to one another and engage in complex social activities. As a result the design of the interaction that we have with computers is no longer just about human-computer interaction.
New CDROM: 'Bamboo Boards & Beyond: Multimedia CD ROM on design explorations for India'. Prof MP Ranjan and colleagues have been working on bamboo applications for sustainability and eco-friendly future applications for some years now. In 1998 - 2001 they carried out research and product design applications using bamboo laminated boards with sponsorship from the UNDP and the APCTT and a multimedia CD ROM was created to document and disseminate all the work done during the research phase as well as the product design stages.
New Journal Launch: Design and Culture. March 2009 marks an important date in the development of design research with the launch of Design and Culture from the Design Studies Forum.