Nathan,
I think that you could look at the PhDs of; Nina Warburton 2002 and
particularly Andrea Cooper 2005 that created models, guidelines and
recommendations to support the comminication of design content and intent
for physical and virtual products. Both were doctoral candidates at the
Centre for Design Research at Northumbria University. Their repsective PhDs
could be accessed through the British Library.
You might also be interested to know that the 2nd European conference of
Design and Semantics of Form and Motion is due to take palce at Eindhoven as
part of Dutch Design week on Thursday and Friday of next week. Whilst you
may not be able to get to the conference, the conference proceedings are
being published and last years papers are also available on-line at
http://www.desform2006.id.tue.nl/.
Regards,
Bob Young
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Subject: Design as communication
Hi,
I'm currently doing some research into the concept of 'design as
communication'. I'm particularly interested in diagrammatic representations
where the designer communicates with the consumer through the medium of the
product.
The first two examples I'm aware of are by Maser (1976) and Krippendorff &
Butter (1984). Does anyone know of any other early representations of this
sort? (They need not be explicitly founded on communication models.)
Also, whilst I'm aware of about 10 other such diagrams from the field of
product design, I only know of two or three from outside this field (HCI:
Salles et al. (2001) and deSouza (2001, 2005). Does anyone know of other
similar representations from outside of product design?
Many thanks,
Nathan Crilly.
de Souza, C. S. (2005), The semiotic engineering of human-computer
interaction, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
de Souza, C. S., Barbosa, S. D. J. and Prates, R. D. (2001), 'A semiotic
engineering approach to user interface design', Knowledge Based Systems, 14
(8): 461-465.
Krippendorff, K. and Butter, R. (1984), 'Product Semantics: Exploring the
Symbolic Qualities of Form', Innovation: The Journal of the Industrial
Designers Society of America, 3 (2): 4-9.
Maser, S. (1976), 'Theorie ohne Praxis ist leer, Praxis ohn Theorie ist
blind!', Form, 73.
Salles, J., Baranauskas, M. C. C. and Bigonha, R. S. (2001), 'Towards a
communication model applied to the interface design process', Knowledge
Based Systems, 14 (8): 455-460.
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