Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to design processes -- Design processes for interior designers -- The interior design project -- Scenarios, design briefs, and users -- Contextualizing interior design problems -- Creative genius in design problem solving -- Expressing and refining ideas from 2-D to 3-D to solutions -- From process to reality -- Design sensibility, aesthetics, sustainability, and ethics -- From process to product to research.

Focuses on the practice of interior design. This title provides an overview of what interior designers do and why, from their earliest research through to the completed built environment. It begins by presenting the design process in diagram form, subsequent chapters breaking each component down so that one step builds upon the last.