The great need for educational innovation goes beyond what educational research alone can provide. Educational design offers much potential, particularly in combination with research--as design research (research "on," "into," or "about" design), design-based research (research "through" design), research-enhanced design (research to "inform" designing), and design-and-research (the two "transforming" each other). In this article, the author briefly discusses on issues facing education and educators, and compares two types of inquiry--research and design--in terms of what people seek to know and how they seek to know it. The author describes four ways that the two might be combined, and then suggests steps that might be taken if the argument for such combinations is compelling. (Contains 4 figures and 2 tables.)