ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how expert designers are able to recognise complex situations rather than having to analyse them. This also leads to the idea of possible gambits as sets of known or recognised design moves that might be appropriate. A further concept that can be useful here is that of ‘affordances’. Here designers recognise the possibility of some object, geometry, style, technology, etc. as having certain possibilities. Examples from well-known designers of all these concepts are explored.
