Design research books

This is one of a series of reading lists I put together between 2002 and 2004 when I was starting out in interaction and experience design. This is the last and shortest list on the shelf, the one on design research as a practice.
Norman Potter’s What is a designer and Models and Constructs are the two books that deserve to be read more than they are, compact, sharp and more relevant to design education than most larger textbooks. Brenda Laurel’s Design Research: Methods and Perspectives is the practical anthology. Miller & Lupton’s Design Writing Research is the critical and editorial companion, how design thinking becomes design writing.
The Amazon links below are what I had at the time, most will be dead now, but the ISBNs will find you a copy.

What is a designer: things, places, messages

Norman Potter.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Models and Constructs

Norman Potter.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Design Research: Methods and Perspectives

Brenda Laurel Ed.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Design Writing Research

Abbott Miller, Ellen Lupton.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Screen

Jessica Helfand.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com