Richard Buchanan (academic)

Richard Buchanan is a professor of design, management, and information systems. Currently he teaches at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Previously he was the head of the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. He serves as an editor of Design Issues.

Richard Buchanan, PhD, is one of the people first talk about "Fourth Order of Design", and is well known for extending the application of design into new areas of theory and practice, writing, and teaching as well as practicing the concepts and methods of interaction design.

In 2009, Buchanan received an honorary doctorate from the Faculté de l’aménagement (Environmental Design Faculty) at the University of Montréal.

He is the author of the following books:

He has published several articles on design theory and research, particularly on Interaction design and organizational design.

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