Dear Terry,
Are you sure that you are a Designer?
Perhaps your are another thing that doesn't have a name yet.
You know that the architects of the Gothic cathedrals weren't called
architects, they were called simply masters.
Before the appearance of Design schools hardly anyone was called
"designer" professionally. We must separate design from Design and by
doing this we must acknowledge that Designers were, from the beginning,
trained as visual artists for everyday life objects. Simple as that.
As for visual approaches being limited to 2 or 3D, I agree with you only
when your abilities on that field are limited.
Cheers,
Eduardo
On 08-04-2010 3:12, Terence Love wrote:
> A question: Are visual approaches outdated in addressing contemporary
> design problems?
>
> Are visual approaches more of a hindrance than a help? Does the use of
> visually-based approaches to design encourage design failures and naff
> design solutions?
>
> Contemporary design problems are multi-dimensional. They are characterised
> by having lots of factors, lots of stakeholders and lots of relationships
> with other technologies. In other words lots of dimensions of design
> considerations.
>
> Visual approaches, however, are characterised by a paradigm of understanding
> shaped by 2 or 3 dimensions. When used to represent factors other than the
> obvious t3 Dimensions of space, they can only represent 3 factors of a
> design at a time.
>
> MY personal experience is visual approaches are often way too limiting in
> design of multi-dimensional contemporary design situations. Worse, visual or
> graphics approaches to modern design problems tend to force everything to
> be reshaped to 2 or 3 dimensions and to force a kind of thinking limited to
> 2 or 3 dimensions. This corrupts the hell out of trying to understand
> complex design situations and create better designs.
>
> I'm wondering if it might be better to see the role of visual/graphic
> approaches as peripheral and predominately located at both ends of design
> activity: gathering information from stakeholders and defining appearance of
> the final outcomes.
>
> Is anyone else seeing the same issues?
>
> Best wishes,
> Terry
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