terry,
i read your suggestion and understood it just as you repeated it, but i don't see the analogies you are making. this is mainly because the design of compelling interfaces is as knowledge driven as that in engineering only the knowledges are different. the design of interfaces requiring a far more complex frameworks and empirical tests than the design of causal mechanisms
klaus
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From: Terence Love [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:45 AM
To: Klaus Krippendorff; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: current Trends in Design Research, where are we going ?
Hi Klaus,
I suggested the discussions about 'human-centred design' vs 'engineering
design' seemed like the old 'styling' vs 'engineering' arguments and
indicate a tacit yearning to revert to 'Art and Design' as styling simply
on the grounds that 'if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it
probably is a duck'. The current human-centred design discussions and the
styling discussions of 30 years ago seem to have a similar 'duckiness'.
Cheers,
Terry
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Sent: Tuesday, 13 October 2009 2:38 AM
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Subject: Re: current Trends in Design Research, where are we going ?
terry,
is it your conception that the whole empirical domain of human-artifact
interaction, usability, computer interfaces, learning, discourse equals or
could be embraced by "styling" or the larger area of "art and design"? i
have not heard anyone arguing for that.
klaus
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