Development of a Sustainable Training Program to Enhance Methodological Competence of Designers

In this paper we claim that methodical competence is the most important prerequisite of a designer to be able to successfully choose and apply design methods in his or her daily work. Following this assumption it is crucial to define methodical competence and – even more important – to know how it can be improved. To address this question, a model of methodological design competence is presented from which recommendations are derived for successfully teaching methodological competence in appropriate forms of training.

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