On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Keith Russell <
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> ...
> significant shifts have taken place in design and that we need to attend
> to these shifts and adjust our understandings. Such adjustments might be
> uncomfortable for some designers in respect to the methods they use being
> no longer relevant or needed.
> ...
>
> Terry seems to be urging us to do an inventory of just which tools remain
> relevant.
>
> Change is promoted by rational argument but it is only achieved by
> emotional engagement.
>
Yup, and I have long argued that because of the change, designers of all
shapes and sizes need to be more broadly educated. All need more
education about history and literature, about people and society, and about
technology. Engineering and science-oriented designers need to learn more
about more traditional design, about aesthetics and form, and about
emotion. Traditional designers need to learn more about science and
technology, bot the content and the rational argument and the formation and
testing of hypotheses (which might help reduce so many empty claims). And
all areas need to know more about people, statistical argumentation, and
business.
The knowledge within these ancillary topics need not be deep, but it should
at least cover modes of thinking and the major trends.
Because modern design is systems, because it is the interface between
technology and people (society), it therefore requires some understanding
of all these things (see above).
--
Enough. I now retreat back to lurking mode. (Well, I am about to send out
an announcement. Then I will lurk.)
Don
Don Norman
Nielsen Norman Group, IDEO Fellow
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Book: "Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded<http://amzn.to/ZOMyys>"
(DOET2).
Course: Udacity On-Line course based on
DOET2<https://www.udacity.com/course/design101>
(free).
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