- Published: 29 October 2024
- ISBN: 9780262553322
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 200
- RRP: $69.99
We Are Not Users
Dialogues, Diversity, and Design

















- Published: 29 October 2024
- ISBN: 9780262553322
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 200
- RRP: $69.99
“In the rigor-relevance debate on how scientific methods can contribute to design of real systems, the actual designing action is more often too complex to even grab in a systematic way. We Are Not Users is a game changer. With the creative and thoughtful way that the authors weave models, design, arts, and engineering, this book is the start of a richer discussion of designing as a verb instead of a rational process. Keeping in mind the increasing interdependencies between systems, society, and the city fabric, this book is much needed to help us address grand societal challenges.”
—Sebastiaan Meijer, Vice-Dean and Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
“'Stronger, faster, smoother, better, safer, simpler'—this book explores the joys and trials of designing and indeed tackles the design of designing. Whether we are dealing with a product, service, or some other form of enterprise or societal structure, this book provides both context to, and also the interrelationships involved in, designing. This important book provides a perspective on 20th-century design movements, but importantly helps frame designing as an unfolding story for the 21st-century.”
—Peter Childs, Professor and Founding Head of the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London