Dear Terry,
You say:
"In design research terms, being aware of the full breadth of design activity
beyond one's specialism seem to also be practically useful - not least in
avoiding bias…."
It's hard to disagree with this. It's also hard to see how the avoidance of bias is facilitated by plucking a random "1%" from the ether in order to value (or rather attempt to belittle) the contribution of a specialism beyond one's own?
Best regards,
Martin
Professor Martin Salisbury
Course Leader, MA Children's Book Illustration
Director, The Centre for Children's Book Studies
Cambridge School of Art
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Dear Ken,
Useability of an iphone isn't that great... When it arrived it was better
than the old Nokias and that was a huge advance at the time.
I suggest nowadays the primary role of the aesthetic aspects of the iphone
is in the realm of status rather than useability. Much the same as the
earlier role of 'styling'.
For day to day practical use Windows phones currently seem to me to be best
on usability terms (though they sold badly). I own and use Apple, Android
and Windows phones and for practicality, and particularly for photography,
pick up the Windows phone rather than the others. The main role for the
iphone seems to be for playing music via Pandora - the sound system is
designed to fit an iphone.
Earlier, I was simply making the point that aesthetics and useability isn't
the whole of the design activity for a product. I was cautioning that in
design theory terms if one is focused on appearance and aesthetics it is
often easy to overlook the huge amount of technical design activity.
Without that technical design activity any product such as an iphone is no
more than a well styled box.
In design research terms, being aware of the full breadth of design activity
beyond one's specialism seem to also be practically useful - not least in
avoiding bias....
Best regards,
Terry
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