I suppose practice might be bettered by some sort of "theoretical" or other
research-led development that changed the way practice was conducted, and
thereby bettered it.
Michael
At 04:00 22/09/2004, Gunnar Swanson wrote:
>On Sep 21, 2004, at 7:18 PM, Karel van der Waarde wrote:
>>Research
>>into the way people read, perceive, pay attention to visual
>>information in particular contexts indicates why things fail and can
>>point to 'best practice'. [However, please note: research cannot
>>point to 'even better practice': that is for the 'working designer'
>>to develop.]
>
>Karel,
>
>Much of what those of us who like to think of ourselves as working
>designers like to think of as research is better characterized as play.
>Play is important for designers, it's just not research in the sense
>that Ken means or, I suspect, in the sense that you mean. I wonder,
>however, if designers' play could be harnessed in a slightly more
>systematic way to become, if not traditional academic research, a
>broadly usable source of design knowledge. I suspect that some sorts of
>research could be done by designers (or designers and others) and that
>may be the very sort of research that could lead to some sorts of "even
>better practice."
>
>Gunnar
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