Ah, well, we agree on that too!
Cheers.
Fil
PS: Another similarity between graphic design and engineering design;
both have megalomaniacs among their practitioners/researchers - present
company excluded of course.
Swanson, Gunnar wrote:
> Filippo A. Salustri wrote:
>> The one thing that made me /itch/ a bit was Gunnar's
>> "...if graphic designers are going to become more central..."
>> ??I don't like the notion of engineering designers being at the
>> 'centre' of engineering design problems. If agents must be
>> at the centre, then it should be the client/user. Ideally (for
>> me) the design is at the centre, and all the 'experts'
>> (including sundry designers) will be ranged around it, as it
>> were.
>
> I meant a central role on a team. I'm afraid I'm not one of those "We need a seat at the table" megalomaniac graphic designers but I do believe that many projects (for instance, large websites) might be improved by a graphic design perspective but will not get it if graphic designers cannot take a role beyond making things pretty or neat.
>
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