Hi Erik
I wonder who is a "practicing designer" in the context of your work.
Are they graphic, industrial, interaction designers? Or are we including
more emergent design practices ranging from service design to policy
design? are designers those with a college degree in design?
Whether we like it or not, today we can find more non-design degree
holders calling themselves designers. In design, in particular, practices
are blurring, design skills are ambiguous, non-designers start to believe
they are doing professional design. I recently used LinkedIn to search for
the term 'behavioral designer' and found a philosopher working for a
marketing agency in Arizona. I met him and I would say he has done in the
last few years a great deal of design work. Of course, it was not
necessarily in type design.
I would say that designers in a broad sense have realized that they have to
do more sensemaking, which appears as a burden for traditional designers
that went to college to focus on making and crafting. Now, crafting
intangibles require better design arguments. Klaus has explained that
designers have to demonstrate their competence in their design discourse,
which would help them gain respect in transdisciplinary collaborations
(Krippendorff, 2014, p. 9-10).
Best,
Mauricio
Krippendoff, K. (2014). Designing Differences that Make a Difference.
Unpublished manuscript.
> The changing nature of design arguments
> <
> http://transground.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-changing-nature-of-design-arguments.html
> >
> When my students in my graduate design theory course have to do interviews
> with practicing designers (combined in this year's class, about 100
> interviews), one thing keeps surfacing.
>
> In many cases, especially from more experienced designers, they mention the
> changing nature of design arguments. This is not unknown, but it is
> interesting to see that it is mentioned as a serious change in their
> practice. The change of design arguments can be simply characterized as a
> shift from a '*show and tell*' model to a '*show and explain*' model.
>
--
G. Mauricio Mejia, MDes, PhD
Assistant professor The Design School
Arizona State University
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