Design Research Report
Posted on May 1, 2011
by Holly Willis

Report to the [AIGA] Design Educators Community Steering Committee
Design Research Journal Assessment
Holly Willis
May 12, 2011

Abstract
This report synthesizes findings gathered during an informal study conducted to determine if there is a need and/or desire for AIGA to launch a new journal devoted to design research. Based on numerous queries made to AIGA leadership in 2010, as well as specific requests for the founding of such a journal expressed during the New Contexts/New Practices conference (October 8-10, 2010), the DEC Steering Committee initiated the report, with the following two goals: 1) to gather input from the AIGA community through interviews with active contributors to design research, and 2) to survey the field, looking at existing journals dedicated to design research. Input from the Steering Committee helped determine general questions and participants for the study, which began in January and concluded in April 2011.