In academia, there is a growing interest in the kind of research where design activities form part of the knowledge construction. This book is the first survey of such research at the intersection of interaction design and industrial design, and as such it fills a notable gap on the bookshelves of interaction design researchers and PhD students. It has several obvious strengths, including: The neologism of "constructive design research" that might provide a fresh start for methodological discourse beyond various interpretations and exegetics of "research-through-design"; the overall structure of Lab, Field and Showroom delineating three main approaches to constructive design research; the consistent grounding in well-narrated examples of constructive design research; the careful historical grounding of concepts and examples. Personally, however, I find the book to suffer from indetermination in the sense that the topic is really most pertinent to researchers and PhD students, but the stated audience includes MA/MSc students, and the style and apparatus of the book is mostly undergraduate-like with its summaries, summaries of summaries, sidebars, fictitious quotes, and the relegation of all deliberation to tiny chapter end notes. Nevertheless, it is the first coherent survey on a topic of growing academic importance within interaction design, and as such it deserves to be commended.