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Design methods
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<p>Design methods are procedures, techniques, aids, or tools for designing. They offer a number of different kinds of activities that a designer might use within an overall design process. Conventional procedures of design, such as drawing, can be regarded as design methods, but since the 1950s new procedures have been developed that are more usually grouped under the name of "design methods". What design methods have in common is that they "are attempts to make public the hitherto private thinking of designers; to <i>externalise</i> the design process". </p><p><i>Design methodology</i> is the broader study of method in design: the study of the principles, practices and procedures of designing. </p>