About, With, and For: Advancing the Practice of User Centered Design Research October 27, 2005

AWF is a collaborative forum offered by the Institute of Design to address issues within design research. It is targeted at those who develop ideas based on insights into people's behaviors, perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes. Within this forum, we explore a range of methods to uncover insights and translate them into meaningful systems, products, organizations, services and communications.

Our goal is to attract people (students, educators and professionals) from a wide variety of fields. Now in our fourth year, we are growing and continually striving to provide more useful content. Creating an environment for learning together will help us to extend our tools and methods beyond their current boundaries and advance the practice of design research.