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  • adjective Characteristic of a designer.

Etymologies

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designer +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Brown does have a solid and good understanding of design and designerly thinking.

    Tim Brown at TED -- and the future of design thinking Erik Stolterman 2009

  • The notion of design or designerly thinking has been around for a long time, and the ideas and ways of understanding design that Brown proposes have for quite some time been developed in an elaborate and robust way by such thinkers as Nigel Cross, Donald Schön, Bryan Lawson, Kees Dorst, Klaus Krippendorff, Harold Nelson, and others.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Erik Stolterman 2009

  • Brown does have a solid and good understanding of design and designerly thinking.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Erik Stolterman 2009

  • Examining the Spring 2010 Fashion Weekschedule — and how futuristic that date seems; why are we not walking around in plastic spacesuits as Courrèges forecast? — one is struck by how designerly the whole affair has become — not about Cindys and Lindas and Naomis but Doo.

    She's Mayoress of Tent City! 2009

  • Up next: A colorful designerly logo for a 1960s FX?

    Archive 2009-06-01 spacesick 2009

  • The notion of design or designerly thinking has been around for a long time, and the ideas and ways of understanding design that Brown proposes have for quite some time been developed in an elaborate and robust way by such thinkers as Nigel Cross, Donald Schön, Bryan Lawson, Kees Dorst, Klaus Krippendorff, Harold Nelson, and others.

    Tim Brown at TED -- and the future of design thinking Erik Stolterman 2009

  • Up next: A colorful designerly logo for a 1960s FX?

    Imaginary Discovery Channel Logo Test (1984) spacesick 2009

  • The paper explores the issues arising when you are trying to transform students with a non-design background into designerly thinkers and doers, and the methods and tools we have developed to support the transformation.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Erik Stolterman 2008

  • We might as a first step see "old" units change their profile and become more designerly, like Ryerson Business School in Toronto who, as a school, has decided to transform the whole school into a design oriented school.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Erik Stolterman 2008

  • Traditional art and design schools are also changing and opening up and inviting new disciplines, there are traditional technical disciplines that join forces with other design oriented disciplines in new unseen designerly "technical" schools.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Erik Stolterman 2008

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