Stanford Center for Design Research

{{Short description|Design research center of Stanford University}}

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The Center for Design Research (CDR) was formed as the first research center at Stanford University to study the thinking, practices, team interactions, and environments of designers.{{cite journal |last1=Auernhammer |first1=Jan |last2=Roth |first2=Bernard |date=16 August 2021 |title=The origin and evolution of Stanford University’s design thinking: From product design to design thinking in innovation management |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpim.12594 |journal=Journal of Product Innovation Management |volume=38 |issue=6 |pages=623–644 |doi=10.1111/jpim.12594 |access-date=January 3, 2024|doi-access=free }} The Center for Design Research was founded in 1984 by a collection of faculty from Stanford's Design Division, with money from companies including Apple Computer, DARPA, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, NASA, and Toshiba Corporation. In the words of CDR founder Professor(Emeritus) Larry Leifer, "Since its inception in 1984, the work of the center has been guided by one stimulus question and two corollary response questions. What do designers do when they do design? How can we help them manage the process? How can information and communication technology support the process?"{{cite book | last = Leifer| first =Leifer | date = 2005 | title = In: Clarkson, J., Eckert, C. (eds) Design process improvement.| publisher = Springer| chapter = Center for Design Research, Stanford University | chapter-url = https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-84628-061-0_35 | pages = 522–525 | doi=10.1007/978-1-84628-061-0_35}}

Today, CDR acts as a nexus for graduate students and researchers in a number of affiliated research labs, including those headed by Professors Mark Cutkosky, Sheri Sheppard, Monroe Kennedy, Sean Folmer and Allison Okamura.{{cite web |title=The Center for Design Research {{!}} Mechanical Engineering |url=https://centerfordesignresearch.stanford.edu/ |website=me.stanford.edu |accessdate=7 January 2024}} Emeritus Professor Larry Leifer previously led labs in the center; Leifer was the founding Director of CDR.

The CDR is located in Building 560 at 424 Panama Mall, at the center of the "Design Quad".

Notable Research

Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program (HPDTRP).{{cite web |url=https://me.stanford.edu/design-thinking-research-program |title=

Design Thinking Research Program |author= |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date=7 January 2023 |quote=}} SAP co-founder and early design thinking proponent Hasso Plattner sponsored a decade long, "rigorous academic methods to understand why and how Design Thinking innovation succeeds and fails." Research in the program led to multiple volumes of the Springer book series Understanding Innovation.{{cite web |url=https://www.springer.com/series/8802/books |title=

Understanding Innovation |author= |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date=7 January 2023 |quote=}}

Notable Alumni

Morgan Pope completed his doctorate in Prof. Mark Cutkosky's BDML Lab -- Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory—in 2016 based on the SCAMP robot.{{cite magazine |last=Pope|first=Morgan |date=16 Mar 2016 |title=Stanford's Flying, Perching SCAMP Robot Can Climb Straight Up Walls - SCAMP is a quadrotor with legs that can perch on walls and then climb up them with spiny little feet |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/stanfords-flying-perching-scamp-can-climb-up-walls |magazine=IEEE Spectrum |location= |publisher=IEEE |access-date=7 January 2024}} His work as a Disney Imagineer resulted in the "Spider-Man, a stunt-double animatronic, or stuntronic" and "a rollerblading cartoon character".{{cite magazine |last=Gent |first=Edd |date=21 Nov 2023 |title= Imagineer Morgan Pope Uses Electromagnetism to Spark Emotions. The Disney roboticist brings superheroes to life |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/disney-roboticist-morgan-pope |magazine=IEEE Spectrum |location= |publisher=IEEE |access-date=7 January 2024}}
Santhi Analytis completed her doctorate in Prof. Mark Cutkosky's BDML Lab -- Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory—in 2014 based on her work inventing a needle manipulator for MRI-guided interventions.{{cite thesis |last=Analytis |first=Santhi |date=2014 |title=Technologies for needle manipulation in magnetic resonance image (MRI)-guided interventions |url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10608062 |degree=Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014 |access-date=17 January 2024}} After graduation she became the co-founder and CTO of Moxxly, a team who reinvented the breast pump; Moxxly was acquired by world-leader Medela in 2017.{{cite web |title= Moxxly's Hands-Free Breast Pump Kit Is Legit Gonna Change The Way You Pump |url=https://www.romper.com/p/the-moxxly-flow-breast-pump-kit-will-let-you-literally-pump-hands-free-16977371 |access-date=17 January 2024}} In 2023 she joined the Designer Fund as a New Venture Fellow.{{cite web |title=Meet Santhi Analytis, Our New Venture Fellow

|url=https://www.designerfund.com/blog/announcing-santhi-analytis-venture-fellow/ |accessdate=17 January 2024}}

Maria Yang is the Gail E. Kendall (1978) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Associate Dean of Engineering at MIT, faculty academic director of the MIT D-Lab, and associate director of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design. She completed her doctorate in 2000 with Prof. Mark Cutkosky as advisor.

CDR 2009 Podcast Episodes

{{cite podcast |host=Sebastian Thrun |title=Towards Self-Driving Cars|website=Center for Design Research |publisher=Center for Design Research|date=August 24, 2009 |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/towards-self-driving-cars/id385629795?i=1000085429374 |access-date=9 January 2024}}

References

External links

[https://centerfordesignresearch.stanford.edu/ Official CDR Web Site]
[https://me.stanford.edu/groups/about-design-group Design Group at Stanford University]
[http://me310.stanford.edu/ Stanford Mechanical Engineering 310 (me310) Web Site]
[http://foresight.stanford.edu/ Stanford Foresight. What you foresee is what you get.]
[https://moonshots.stanford.edu/ Stanford Moonshots. Move fast and fix things.]
[https://dschool.stanford.edu/ The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design]
[https://ugdesign.stanford.edu/ Design (formerly Product Design) degree]
[https://designprogram.stanford.edu/ Stanford MS Design degree]

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