Dear Glenn,
Internet browsing is not a research skill.
First, there is a distinction between browsing and using the web for a serious
information search.
Second, effective, skilled information seeking is an information skill. ONLY when
information seeking is part of a larger, systematic process does in become part
of an array of research skills.
Third, to describe a designer as someone with "great research skills," I'd need
to see a great deal more.
Since you posted this in reference to the recent threads, I suggest you look
at the list of skills that Rugg andc Petrie describe. A designer who can do all
that has great research skills.
I don't know if you intended this comment to be cynical or silly, but it reads as
both. If you did not mean it that way, my apologies. This list is a research
community and "great research skills" are not also known as "web browsing."
Ken
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:48:58 -0500, [log in to unmask]
wrote:
>Having young designers with great research skills (aka internet browsing)
>and poor form solving/ problem solving is an issue.
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