Our research and education is aimed at developing knowledge and skills that help designers and others involved in designing. We aim to produce knowledge and methods, tools, and techniques, that are relevant for both scientific and professional communities in design.
In part this shows in the content we deal with (often, user experience regarding products, their use, possible interaction styles), and the way we do research (using designerly methods around interventions with research prototypes, as well as classical experimental methods). Much of the research has both explorative and validating goals; and the way to do research has become an object of design inquiry in itself (see <Making>).