The Way, second edition

A book that lays out the fundamental concepts of culture and outlines a -driven way to approach the world. Humans did not discover fire—they ed it. is not defined by software programs, blueprints, or font choice. When we create new things—technologies, organizations, processes, systems, environments, ways of thinking—we engage in . With this expansive view of as their premise, in The Way Harold Nelson and Erik Stolterman make the case for as its own culture of inquiry and action. They offer not a recipe for practice or theorizing but a formulation of culture‘s fundamental core of ideas. These ideas—which form “the way”—are applicable to an infinite variety of domains, from such traditional fields as architecture and graphic to such nontraditional areas as organizational, educational, interaction, and healthcare . The text of this second edition is accompanied by new detailed images, “schemas” that visualize, conceptualize, and structure the authors‘ understanding of inquiry. The text itself has been revised and expanded throughout, in part in response to reader feedback.