John Chris Jones

John Chris Jones

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Collaborating with engineers, Jones advocated ergonomics and the consideration of user-centred issues not part of engineering skills and attitudes at the time. When the results of his ergonomic studies of user behavior were not utilized by the firm's designers, Jones set about studying the design process being used. Jones was also frustrated with the superficiality of industrial design at the time and become involved with ergonomics.

Design methods as an area was driven by:
* Inability to balance individual, group, societal, and ecological needs;
* Lack of purpose, order, and human scale;
* Aesthetic and functional failure in adapting to local physical and social environments;
* Development of materials and standardized components that were ill suited for use in any specific application;
* Creation of artifacts that people did not like

Jones wasn't actually addressing design as presently conceived. He set out an entirely original philosophy of design—one that questioned the aims, goals and purposes of designing. He stated that one of the reasons why he focused on Design Methods was

:". . . it's not another way of doing design, you see, it's a way of doing what designers don't do at all."

At the end of the 1950s he published an article "A Systematic Design Method" articulating ways to integrate ergonomic data into the engineering design process. His emerging ideas about Design Methods was to integrate both rationality and intuition—a common thread in the formalization of Design Methods and how it was interpreted by other groups.

He also realized that designers needed to move out of focusing on expression and modes of production and begin to address the definition of a problem to be solved. He commented that

:"the future job of a designer is to give substance to new ideas while taking away the physical and organizational foundations of old ones. In this situation, it is nonsense to think of designing as the satisfaction of existing requirements. New needs grow and old needs decay . . ."

Books

* Jones, John Christopher, "Design Methods" (John Wiley & Sons Inc., August 1, 1992), 2nd edition (Van Nostrand Reinhold, August 1, 1992), 2nd edition
* Jones, John Christopher, "Designing Designing" (London: Architecture Design and Technology Press), 1991

External links

* [http://www.indiana.edu/~iucdp/jonesbib.html John Christoper Jones: selected bibliography]
* [http://degraaff.org/attic/design-methods.html Abstract: Design Methods]
* [http://jdr.tudelft.nl/ The Journal of Design Research]


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