ABSTRACT
The approaches taken by researchers to analyse the design process, the product and its success vary. Some have looked at the structure of the design process (Davis 1995), some at the nature of the innovation process (Jevnaker 1999). Others have looked at the pleasures evoked by products (Taylor 1999) and one can arguably be said to have looked at the personality of the designer (Candy and Edmonds 1996). Whichever method is used there is a certain amount of dependency on the viewpoint taken by the researcher and the type of design process being examined, and this categorisation of processes is problematic-there are as many design process models as there are designers.
