I'm a bit confused,
I think there are two thread for the discussion on design language:
one is the discussion about the language of designed objects, that is
the language that make it possible to communicate a set of values from
the designers to the users, and from users to other users, the other is
the language to be used by designers to understand each other. This
second language needs to be specialistic (as it is the language of
medical doctors, and other professions) because it has to address
specific problems, techniques and characteristic of a design process. In
both case we need a language, in the first case, however the language is
generated by the itneraction between that part of society that produces
products and that part that consumes or uses products. In the second
case the specialistic language may be already in place, but I think it
would be very difficult to recognise and decode in the structures that
are usually appliable to other kind of languages (grammar, syntax, etc)
and it would also be very difficult to think of it as a static entity,
it would be changing all the time, together with the change of problems
and cultural contexts that generate them...
Did I manage to confuse someone else?
Nicola
Dr Nicola Morelli
Centre for Design at RMIT University
GPOBox 2476V Melbourne Victoria 3001
Web: http://users.tce.rmit.edu.au/e07643
>>> "R. Allan Reese" <[log in to unmask]> 12/10/01 03:43AM >>>
A few random thoughts about talking about design.
Yes, we need a language. Describing an action implies more than doing
it.
It implies consciousness by a critic, self-consciousness by the
performer,
reflexiveness by a teacher.
How to develop the awareness, the perception of a need for language?
In
teaching data graphics, I find this a barrier. Most people do not
read
graphs, and have produced only one or two basic forms. The GUI
attitude
to computing does not induce critical use - click and something
appears,
with no apparent design choices having been made.
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