Hi everyone,
At 11:10 AM 10/30/2002 +0200, Kari-Hans Kommonen wrote:
>As an example, users of digital systems are increasingly (because of
>the exponentially growing numbers of systems and applications, and
>the increasing commodity nature of the products, etc.) better experts
>in the area where they are using the system, while the design of the
>system takes place mostly in isolation from this expertise. The
>systems can't take the individual needs into account, they must be
>marketed to a large number of different users, and are usually badly
>customizable and configurable to fit the needs of the users, because
>the designers do not know how to design them so that the users could
>continue the design process and make the product suit their needs.
I appreciate this case because it points directly to the pre-design, social
design decision-making. I can't imagine there is a design program in the
world that they teach all that knowledge and skills needed for exploring
and designing the social situations of material artifacts.
If any one knows such a program, and a good one, please inform me. I am
serious -- I want to keep in contact with them. I know the Environment &
Behavior Masters and Doctoral programs in US and Aussie schools of
architecture. I will appreciate information about similar programs in
Europe (EU), as well in US and EU industrial design schools. However, I
treat this as a training about pre-design -- post-design decision-making
rather than core physical design.
Regards,
Lubomir
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