The nature and aesthetics of design - Pye, David (New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc., 1978)
1. Arts and science. energy. results -- 2. Invention and design distinguised -- 3. The six requirements for design -- 4. The geometry of a device -- 5. Techniques. Skill -- 6. Inventions: analogous results -- 7. We can wish for impossibilities. Utility. Improvement. Economy -- 8. The requirements conflict. compromise -- 9. Useless work. Workmanship -- 10. Architecture. inventing the objects -- 11. 'Function' and fiction -- 12. The designer's responsibility -- 13. The aesthetics of design -- 14. Perception and looking -- 15. Taste and style -- 16. Originality -- 17. The common ground between visual art and music. what we really see.
Keywords: DESIGN