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Dear Design Journal: A Visual Journey and a Reflective Account of a Practice-Led Doctoral Research

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A pictorial about design journaling as a critical documentation method for doctoral practice-led re- search. It presents various tools and methods that support the researcher’s reflexivity, illustrated in the author’s analysis of his journaling work. It concludes on the importance of journaling to identify new insights and generate theory based on capturing the researcher’s reflection.

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  • 13 April 2023

    Chapter 41:

    In the original version of the chapter 41 , the following belated corrections are to be incorporated:

    The affiliation “Aalto University.” of authors “Woo Park and Jaewoo Joo” is to be changed to “Department of Marketing, College of Business Administration, Kookmin University, Republic of Korea”.

    And, the corresponding author details need to be updated as “* Corresponding author: Jaewoo Joo. Email: designmarketinglab@gmail.com”

    The correction chapter has been updated with the changes.

    Chapter 129:

    In the original version of the chapter 129, the following belated correction has incorporated: The author name “Daniel Echevrri” has been changed to “Daniel Echeverri”.

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Echeverri, D. (2022). Dear Design Journal: A Visual Journey and a Reflective Account of a Practice-Led Doctoral Research. In: Bruyns, G., Wei, H. (eds) [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes. IASDR 2021. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4472-7_129

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