may i recommend to you a recent book of mine.
http://www.amazon.com/Semantic-Turn-Klaus-Krippendorff/dp/0415322200/sr=
8-1/qid=1161356156/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-0290917-7844749?ie=UTF8
chapter 5 essentially presents a communication theory for design. it
traces design as communication through a network of stakeholders from
initial ideas to their realization, use, and eventual retirement. it
recognizes that most designs get stuck somewhere before ideas come to
fruition. it states that no design can exist without being communicated
and accepted by stakeholders, users being merely one of them, and it
outlines what designers will have to do in order to succeed in the
process. communication is of course only one aspect of design.
klaus krippendorff
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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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