The design process offers planners a means to identify and resolve a range of problems from a variety of viewpoints, beyond the constraints of traditional planning and its immediate theoretical boundaries. Following the design process in the planning stage, design will also contribute in the physical sense, as a product. Often dismissed as purely aesthetic, design content embodies information and solutions from disparate fields, whilst in contemporary ergonomic literature aesthetics is recognised as being integral to usability. The product of design could be implemented as a partner to the planning outcomes, or as the embodiment of a specific solution. The authors recognise the informal existence of design in the planning process, the intention being to formalise and expand on its possible contribution with a focus on user-centric issues. Key to this exploration is the suitability of different stages in the design process to deal with multi-modal transport problems of differing maturity; pre-planning to post-implementation. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E216058.
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