Part 1: What is design?
Introduction
The changing role of the designer
Route maps of the design process
Part. 2: Problems and solutions
The components of design problems
Measurement, criteria and judgement in design
A model of design problems
Problems, solutions and the design process
Part 3: Three design thinking
Types and styles of thinking
Creative thinking
Guiding principles
Design strategies
Design tactics
Design traps
Designing with others
Design as conversation and perception
Towards a model of designing

In this fourth edition, Bryan Lawson continues his discussion, trying to understand how designers think. He does this by mapping out the issues concerned with the design process, with design problems and solutions and design thinking. This edition adds to the previous debates by including a new chapter on 'Design as Conversation' reflecting on how designers, either consciously or unconsciously, monitor, reflect on, control and change their thinking. It also includes a new series of case studies on notable designers including the racing car designer Gordon Murray, product designer James Dyson, and architects such as Edward Cullinan and Glenn Murcott