3.4 What does ‘controlling the quality of an S-R event’ involve?

This activity in the working out of a design is something which is going on intuitively and automatically when you have had some experience in working out designs. This is because, as you come to work out a thought-up design, the criteria for a good design which helped you think it up have taken on […]

2.3 Referent 1: A set of criteria for a good design

If a designer is to come up with an optimum solution to the problem of thinking up a design, the existence of a set of criteria against which to test an idea that is being considered can be very helpful. When drawn into the think tank, such criteria become referent 1: a set of criteria […]