1. Introduction -- 2. Is Engineering Design Disappearing from Design Research? -- 3. Methodical Support for the Development of Modular Product Families -- 4. Risk-Driven Design Processes: Balancing Efficiency with Resilience in Product Design -- 5. Methodology and Computer-Aided Tools - A Powerful Interaction for Product Development -- 6. A Reuse Design Decision Support System Based on Self-Organizing Maps -- 7. Increasing Effectiveness and Efficiency of Product Development – A Challenge for Design Methodologies and Knowledge Management -- 8. Design Theory and Methodology – Contributions to the Computer Support of Product Development/Design Processes -- 9. Summary - Specific Ways to Further Develop Design Methodology -- 10. Boundary Conditions for a New Type of Design Task: Understanding Product/Service-Systems -- 11. Product/Service System Design and Beyond -- 12. Open Product Development -- 13. Managing Virtual Product Creation -- 14. Systems Engineering Versus Design Methodology -- 15. The Autogenetic Design Theory - Product Development as an Analogy to Biological Evolution -- 16. Towards a Designer-Centred Methodology - Descriptive Considerations and Prescriptive Reflections -- 17. A New Perspective on Product Engineering Overcoming Sequential Process Models -- 18. Summary - Holistic Ways to Supply, Extend or Replace Design Methodology -- 19. What Designers Can Learn from Leonardo, an Ingenious Artist, Scientist and Engineer -- 20. “Design … but of What”? -- 21. Transferring Design Methods into Practice -- 22. Towards a Taxonomy of Design Research Areas -- 23. Design Research and Education: A University Perspective -- 24. The Future of Design Research: Consolidation, Collaboration and Inter-Disciplinary Learning? -- 25. Summary - General Reflections on Design Methodology -- 26. Conclusions.

The Future of Design Methodology gives a holistic overview of perspectives for design methodology, addresses trends for developing a powerful methodical support for design practice and provides a starting point for future design research. The chapters are written by leading scientists from around the world, who have great expertise in design methodology, as well as the farsightedness needed to develop design methodology further. The Future of Design Methodology is a detailed contribution to consolidated design methodology and design research. Instead of articulating the views of one scientist, it provides a comprehensive collection of perspectives and visions. The editor highlights the substantial deficiencies and problems of the current design methodology and summarizes the authors’ findings to draw future-oriented conclusions.  The comprehensive overview of the status of design methodology given in The Future of Design Methodology will help enhance the individual scientific development of junior researchers, while the authoritative perspectives on future design methodology will challenge the views of experts. It is suitable for readers working in a wide range of design fields, such as design methodology, engineering design and industrial design.