The Design Quality Indicator (DQI) is a toolkit to measure, evaluate and improve the design quality of buildings. Development of DQI was started in the...

Research design refers to the overall strategy utilized to answer research questions. A research design typically outlines the theories and models underlying...

indicators. In a given locality, community indicators inform planners, while the design quality indicator can be the basis of building permits. Assessment...

Database design is the organization of data according to a database model. The designer determines what data must be stored and how the data elements interrelate...

graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software; user experience design (UX design); and...

design is an early phase of the design process, in which the broad outlines of function and form of something are articulated. It includes the design...

The engineering design process, also known as the engineering method, is a common series of steps that engineers use in creating functional products and...

service in order to improve its quality, and the interaction between the service provider and its users. Service design may function as a way to inform...

iteration of a design, changes and refinements are made. This process is intended to ultimately improve the quality and functionality of a design. In iterative...

A design language or design vocabulary is an overarching scheme or style that guides the design of a complement of products or architectural settings...

User-centered design (UCD) or user-driven development (UDD) is a framework of processes in which usability goals, user characteristics, environment, tasks...

A design pattern is the re-usable form of a solution to a design problem. The idea was introduced by the architect Christopher Alexander and has been adapted...

Design by contract (DbC), also known as contract programming, programming by contract and design-by-contract programming, is an approach for designing...

Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific...

Icon design is the process of designing a graphic symbol that represents some real, fantasy or abstract motive, entity or action. In the context of software...

Gillenwater, Zoe Mickley (October 21, 2011). "Crafting quality media queries". "Responsive design—harnessing the power of media queries". Google Webmaster...

Clean-room design (also known as the Chinese wall technique) is the method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing...

Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the...

case. The design of a legible text-based typeface remains one of the most challenging assignments in graphic design. The even visual quality of the reading...

landscape design. The landscape design phase consists of research, gathering ideas, and setting a plan. Design factors include objective qualities such as:...

Processor design is a subfield of computer science and computer engineering (fabrication) that deals with creating a processor, a key component of computer...

Floral design or flower arrangement is the art of using plant material and flowers to create an eye-catching and balanced composition or display. Evidence...

is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve communications through documentation, and to create a database...

Defensive design is the practice of planning for contingencies in the design stage of a project or undertaking. Essentially, it is the practice of anticipating...

Modular design, or modularity in design, is a design principle that subdivides a system into smaller parts called modules (such as modular process skids)...

"Designerly Ways of Knowing", established some of the intrinsic qualities and abilities of design thinking that also made it relevant in general education and...

basic study of system design is the understanding of component parts and their subsequent interaction with one another. Systems design has appeared in a variety...

Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent...

involved in the development of the Construction Industry Council’s Design Quality Indicator. Prasad has campaigned for an equitable and effective climate treaty...

Participatory design (originally co-operative design, now often co-design) is an approach to design attempting to actively involve all stakeholders (e...