Dear Michael
I agree with what you said. but i read Karel's statement (as quoted below)
perhaps slightly differently. research of course might help better
practice.but practice is practice... it needs to be performed, and it is
performed by the designers, not the researchers. in this sense, i agree
with Karel.
best, rosan
Michael A R Biggs wrote:
> I suppose practice might be bettered by some sort of "theoretical" or other
> research-led development that changed the way practice was conducted, and
> thereby bettered it.
>
> Michael
>
> At 04:00 22/09/2004, Gunnar Swanson wrote:
> >On Sep 21, 2004, at 7:18 PM, Karel van der Waarde wrote:
> >>Research
> >>into the way people read, perceive, pay attention to visual
> >>information in particular contexts indicates why things fail and can
> >>point to 'best practice'. [However, please note: research cannot
> >>point to 'even better practice': that is for the 'working designer'
> >>to develop.]
> >
> >Karel,
> >
> >Much of what those of us who like to think of ourselves as working
> >designers like to think of as research is better characterized as play.
> >Play is important for designers, it's just not research in the sense
> >that Ken means or, I suspect, in the sense that you mean. I wonder,
> >however, if designers' play could be harnessed in a slightly more
> >systematic way to become, if not traditional academic research, a
> >broadly usable source of design knowledge. I suspect that some sorts of
> >research could be done by designers (or designers and others) and that
> >may be the very sort of research that could lead to some sorts of "even
> >better practice."
> >
> >Gunnar
>
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