February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
8h 23m
English
Content preview from Universal Methods of Design
11 Case Studies
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RESEARCH METHOD
11 Case Studies
The case study is a research strategy involving in-depth investigation of single events or instances in context, using multiple sources of research evidence.1
Case studies have a long history in social science research, and in the teaching practices of law and business.2 More recently, it has been proposed that this method has value for design practice and education, in both the use of case studies for design research and teaching, and in the writing of case studies by designers.3 Case studies are useful in exploratory research for understanding existing phenomena for comparison, information, or inspiration, but ...