Design through research: Handpicking tools case study as facilitator to collaborative product development / Azmir Mamat Nawi and Wan Zaiyana Mohd Yusof

Collaboration between research and design is believed by many design
theorists to offer new originality, insight and specialist expertise for product
design. In practice, however, there exists a discrepancy between this ideal
and a reality of unreconcilable cultural and methodological differences.
This project has proven that the collaboration between research and design
fuels creativity. This study documents and discusses such a collaboration as
an example of practice with implications for educators, designers and
students. It identifies a new role with the appropriate knowledge and experience
to act as bridges within companies, facilitating the adoption of design
methodologies appropriate to changing priorities in the design industries.