Four Criteria for Design Theories

We believe that the adoption of these four standards will strengthen future design theories and encourage the extension or reconfiguration of existing design theories in a useful direction.

The theory should use propositions (ie if-then languages) as a way to describe, interpret and predict the actual and existing aspects of design.

In appropriate cases, the new theory should accept and adopt the propositions and languages ​​included in other design theories.

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the adoption of the four standards outlined reinforce future design theories and encourage existing design theory to extend or reconfigure in a useful direction. We will propose creation and evaluation criteria of four design theories. These should be used as (1) theory has substantial design application and (2) in the case of language use the proposition to describe, interpret and predict the actual and existing aspects of the design. (3) Where appropriate, the new theory should accept and adopt the propositions and languages ​​contained in other design theories; (4) the theory should at least be aware of adapting generation activities . We have not proposed a new general design theory - this article outlines a powerful approach to research and theoretical construction. Also note that this article does not pretend to run out of topics that have been discussed at least for the past 50 years.

The theory of knowledge is divided into two parts: external examination and internal evaluation report of 1,200-1600 words of the article. Each section describes the degree of achievement using evaluation criteria (the four criteria of the article and the four criteria of the presentation) (for example, "research and investigation of knowledge issues, most of the views are reasonable. The discussion is consistent. "). A score of 5 to 6 is stated in the paper standard. The overall score is converted to A to E's score. The same system is used for expansion paper, and the student can obtain the score based on TOK and EE. A diploma will not be awarded if up to 3 diploma candidates fail to submit a TOK article or TOK announcement, or if you acquire E grade for extended paper or knowledge theory.

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the adoption of the four standards outlined reinforce future design theories and encourage existing design theory to extend or reconfigure in a useful direction. We will propose creation and evaluation criteria of four design theories. These should be used as (1) theory has substantial design application and (2) in the case of language use the proposition to describe, interpret and predict the actual and existing aspects of the design. (3) Where appropriate, the new theory should accept and adopt the propositions and languages ​​contained in other design theories; (4) the theory should at least be aware of adapting generation activities . We have not proposed a new general design theory - this article outlines a powerful approach to research and theoretical construction. Also note that this article does not pretend to run out of topics that have been discussed at least for the past 50 years.

It is thought that design theory and system theory are almost opposite, not twins. Design theory verifies synthetic models and system theory is an analytical framework. General system theory first tried to apply the German structure of Ludwig von Bertanlampi to biology. Instead, design theory began with a large number of French architects and artists who only want to be creative. From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, people began accepting this kind of way of thinking. System thinking first arrived. Design thinking is right behind. Some people in Germany think that this is the meaning of our words for the first time! Unfortunately, by the disappearance of the Bauhaus, a group of angry people divided the country into two ... in other words they had bigger problems, and