After studying about design research I come to understand that it is the primary step that has been taken into consideration to start any kind of development or design. It is a basically a foundational step to assemble any service or system that respond to any particular social or beneficial work. It should not be overlooked it should applied thoroughly .
I do believe it related to IT, good design is always hard to define. As in IT mostly design is based on knowledge or ideals that turns these knowledge into output that are valued to the people. So for learning the detail about these design the design research is the perfect way.
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