Terry
I think you will be delighted to hear that you are wrong, at least in the
case of Autodesk's Dreamcatcher software.
I learned about it -- and I am working with -- Mickey McManus. Mick is an
industrial designer, co-founder (and chairman) of MAYA Design in
Pittsburgh, spending time with the Autodesk people.
http://maya.com/company/people/mickey-mcmanus
Autodesk, located in San Francisco, is populated with designers. Their Pier
9 facility is an amazing collection of powerful tools, from water jets and
3D printers, to huge laser cutters and milling machines. They invite
artists in residence to make use of the facilities.
http://www.autodesk.com/pier-9
And Autodesk is working on a project with us to test Dreamweaver with
design students at the University of California, San Diego and at a Design
School in London (no name because the faculty member running the study
hasn't finished the negotiations yet).
The goal is that Dreamcatcher and subsequent iterations are designer driven.
Don
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Your comments in part address my question about the involvement of
> designers and design researchers.
>
> Designers and design researchers from Art and Design traditions seem
> absent from designing the software and computer systems changing their
> design practices.
>
Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
[log in to unmask] designlab.ucsd.edu/ www.jnd.org <http://www.jnd.org/>
Multiple faculty positions in design at UC San Diego
http://d.ucsd.edu/jobs/
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