The main idea of “What do designers and researchers do? Thinking doing and researching” by Christopher Crouch and Jane Pierce is to reinforce how central design is for helping identify and solve problems (Crouch). This reading is in support of the opposing opinion that research and design go hand in hand, so all evidence supplied is to be used as important points for us to refute. A lot of the reading was focused on drawing parallels between research and design, such as stating that design is like research because the problems addressed have a myriad of answers. They also included this list of key points on page 21: “design and research are about initiating change in man-made things. initiating change Porsche Design into the social realm, where research already sits. The dynamic relationship between problem and solution in the social round means that a solution is never in itself complete, and may well reveal, or create, new problems. A question is the mechanism that can model the problem/solution dynamic. The role that individual subjectivity plays in (in framing problems, questions and Solutions) needs to be acknowledged as both a help and a hindrance in this process he is,” (Crouch p. 21) as well as a list highlighting similar processes that designers and researchers go through on page 22:

“evaluating paradigms of practice.
interpreting paradigms of practice.
Identifying problems.
Assessing / evaluating problems.
Using intellectual tools to conceptualize / analyze / make meaningful a problem to make it capable of being understood or solved.
Testing intellectual and practical paradigms to understand / solve the problem.”
(Crouch p. 22)