The approach to Design and Design itself seems to encompass problem solving
and finding a solution to it.
The reasons why everyone at my organisation, irrespective of the role,
specifically when roles are blurred as is with Designers, is called a
'*Solution
Consultant*'
Keep it simple and free from boundaries?
Manish Pillewar
Solution Consultant
www.Sahajsoft.com
Bangalore, India
NID 02-05
M.Des. Product Design
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018, 07:57 Terence Love, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Engineers have been complaining about the same problem for at least 50
> years.
>
> The solution was simple: -)
>
> In many jurisdictions, engineering is now a closed profession requiring 5
> years of tightly defined and tested degree and postgraduate study plus
> three years highly-specified and tested professional formation, plus an
> assessment after a minimum of 8 years and that that enables one to call
> oneself and engineer, provided that every year from then on one also does
> 250 hours of approved continuing professional development training.
>
> The same could work for people wanting to call themselves a 'designer'.
>
> Best wishes
> Terry
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> On Behalf Of Marvin Cheung
> Sent: Monday, 25 June 2018 10:00 AM
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> Subject: Re: Help! Our field needs a new name: "Design" is far too
> misleading for much of what we do.
>
> Agree with Don haha. The “misuse” seems to be the more minor part of the
> argument.
>
> That said however, as much as I would like to frame what I do with a new
> name, if the boundary isn’t clarified the name’s just going to catch on.
> And we’ll end up with the same problem. It also comes into question if
> let’s say you study the same things as your other “non-efficiency oriented”
> peers, whether marking such a difference is indeed justified. Perhaps to
> hone it down a bit more is to rename the job title instead of the field.
> But even then the responsibilities of a role varies depending on the
> company you work at.
>
> Ultimately, the root of the problem - unclear boundary, still needs
> solving.
>
> All the best,
> Marvin
> Www.marvinkc.com
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 25 Jun 2018, at 3:24 AM, Stefan Holmlid <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Fair enough.
> > ”Misuse” is the wrong way of putting. I hope my second email clarified
> > what I mean
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> > 24 juni 2018 kl. 20:31 skrev Don Norman <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > A clarification
> >
> > First of all, my comment (about the article on fashion design) was NOT
> > that this is a misuse of the word "design."
> >
> > My comment really is that the word "design" encompasses so many
> > different activities, that it is probably best to use different terms
> > to denote these differences. We try today by using adjectives (so the
> > NY Times article should not have been about "design," it should have
> > been about "Fashion Design." But adjectives have a way of being
> > dropped, so that is not an adequate solution.
> > --
> > I do not wish to change the meaning of the word Design: First of all,
> > that is a hopeless exercise (as many have already observed). Second,
> > it has so many meanings, that the usage today is misleading, but not
> inappropriate.
> >
> > What is the answer? I do not know, which is why I have turned to this
> > list for advice.
> >
> > Don
> >
> > *Some asides*
> >
> >
> > - D. Busse suggests "Defign," the noun and "defigning," the verb. A
> > rather interesting suggestion for the Design
> > Research/observational/applied ethnography part of the design process.
> >
> >
> > - Once, after a long dinner in Munich, with multiple bottles of wine,
> > Dieter Rams complained about the misuse of the word "design," scorning
> > the fact that now there were people who called themselves "hair
> > designers." He suggested the German word "Gestaltung" (as in
> > "Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe"). However, Gestaltung
> translates as "shape" or "form"
> > and so this is also restrictive.
> >
> >
> > - I notice that German Universities today tend to use the word "design"
> > as in:
> > - Die European School of Design in Frankfurt – Hessens kreativste
> > Designschule und eine der Top Ten Designausbildungsstätten in
> Deutschland
> > – bietet einen exzellenten Design-Studiengang im Fachbereich
> Visuelle
> > Kommunikation / Kommunikationsdesign.
> > - Der Masterstudiengang Industrial Design verfolgt eine
> > disziplinübergreifende Kooperation mit Lehrstühlen der Fakultäten für
> > Architektur, Maschinenwesen und Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der
> > TU München
> > sowie mit Lehrstühlen der LMU und richtet sich an
> HochschulabsolventInnen
> > aus gestaltungsverwandten Disziplinen.
> >
> >
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