Terry,
Are you deliberately missing Joćo's point? He didn't seem to be complaining that things didn't look designy enough. He was complaining about a functional component. Are you sympathetic when someone claims to be in an area of design where structural integrity is of little concern at all?
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On Sep 13, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello Joćo.
> Before being too concerned, its possibly good to remember that there are lots of different kinds of design activity and for most fields of design, visual appearance is not particularly central. In many areas of design, visual appearance is of little concern at all.
> For those working within the visual design fields, though, I can understand the attitudes of other kinds of designers might be pretty frustrating!
> Best wishes,
> Terry
>> Reading a poorly designed paper about design is somewhat like attending a lecture about language where the speaker is constantly making blatant grammatical mistakes.
>> There is an obvious conflict between the medium and the message.
>>
>> All of us in the design research community should call for higher standards of design for all design research communication.
>>
>> (a slightly annoyed) Joćo Ferreira
>> PhD candidate, TU Delft
>
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