Nigel Cross (1982)
Design Studies, 3(4), 221-227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0142-694X(82)90040-0
Abstract. The original 1982 paper that launched Cross's "designerly ways of knowing" program — distinguishing design's tacit, constructive epistemology from science's analytic one. Cited by virtually every design-research paper since arguing for design's disciplinary autonomy.
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