.Includes bibliographical references and index

Design as a set of skills you can learn -- Getting going (actually you've already started) -- From vernacular design to design by drawing -- Drawing in design -- Design schools -- Starting to design -- What's the problem? -- The components of design thinking -- Managing the design process -- What designers know -- The design tutorial -- The crit or design jury or review -- Design conversations -- Design concepts and schemata -- Guiding principles -- Recognising situations, gambits and affordances -- Having more than one idea -- Parallel lines of thought -- Some expert tricks of the trade -- More on conversations with media -- Getting into a design project -- The structure of design problems (1) -- The structure of design problems (2) -- Navigating your design problem -- How are you getting on? -- Moving on.