Industrial Designers in UX Practice: Motivations, Professionalization, and the Construction of Designer Identity

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2023-04-01

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Süner Pla Cerda, Sedef
Töre Yargın, Gülşen
Günay, Aslı

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DESIGN ISSSUES

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https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00715

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S. Süner Pla Cerda, G. Töre Yargın, and A. Günay, “Industrial Designers in UX Practice: Motivations, Professionalization, and the Construction of Designer Identity,” DESIGN ISSSUES, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 27–40, 2023, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00715.