Design and Librarianship

• Design Thinking (Library Futures Series, Book 4)

• Toward a Design Epistemology for Librarianship

• The Role of Design in Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature: Implications for American Librarianship

• Cataloging Research by Design: A Taxonomic Approach to Understanding Research Questions in Cataloging

• How We Done It Good: Research Through Design as a Legitimate Methodology for Librarianship

• What We Mean When We Say ‘Design’: A Field Scan of Coursework Offerings on Design Topics in Master’s Level Library Education

Design and Social Justice

• Hertzian Tales: Electronic products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design

• Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

• Using Critical Design to Explore the Future of Libraries

• The Critical Catalog: Social Justice, Tricksterism, and Library Information Systems

• Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination

• Do artifacts have politics?

• Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

• Cross, Nigel. Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work. Oxford, UK: Berg, 2011.

• Nelson, Harold G. and Erik Stolterman. The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World, 2^nd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012

• Norman, Don. The design of everyday things. London: MIT Press, 2013.

• Schön, Donald. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1983.

• Simon, Herbert A. The Sciences of the Artificial. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1969.

• Design Justice Network: The Design Justice Network is an international community of people and organizations who are committed to rethinking design processes, centering people who are normally marginalized in design work, and using collaborative, creative practices to address deep challenges.

• Design Thinking for Libraries: This toolkit, created by a partnership among IDEO, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chicago Public Library, and Aarhus Public Libraries, offers readings, resources, and activities to guide understanding of design thinking methods. While the full toolkit requires a time commitment of 5-8 hours per week for 6 weeks, there is also a quickstart “at-a-glance” guide for those with less time.

• Designing Better Libraries: Steven Bell’s blog focuses on applying concepts and techniques from design to libraries, with an emphasis on user experience. Posts often highlight example applications of design concepts in library settings, and reviews and commentary on books and other resources.

• Library Juice Academy: Library Juice Academy offers a range of online professional development courses for librarians, archivists, and other staff, focusing on practical topics to build new skills. Among other topics, they offer online asynchronous courses in design thinking, universal design, user experience design, and service design.

• Stanford University d.school’s Crash Course in Design Thinking: Includes videos, handouts, and other resources for leading a 90-minute team design challenge that covers all the phases of the design thinking process.

• Value Sensitive Design Lab: The Value Sensitive Design Lab is a group of designers and researchers who engage human values in the design of tools and technologies to support the actions, relationships, institutions, and experiences that human beings care deeply about. The value sensitive design approach provides theories and methods that account for human values in a principles and systematic manner throughout the design process by engaging people’s moral and technical imaginations.