Hi Gunnar,
Thanks for your message. I find that designers appear to enthusiastically
embrace design research.
There seems to be an assumption that the proper way for designers to 'use'
design research is by studying articles and papers about design research.
Designers most commonly use design research, however, by using design
software, using new design methods such as usability testing, and by using
design guidelines such as 'text with 62 to 75 characters per line'. The
outcomes of design research are already very deeply embedded in everything
designers do.
From observation, some designers' lack of enthusiasm for the more formal
sides of design research seems to have been in dealing with the literature
addressing technical issues, mathematics, sociological and psychological
analyses and careful reasoning necessary to get accurate research findings.
Where the design research findings are presented 'on a plate', however, in
for example new Photoshop tools or new iPhone widgets then there appears to
be substantial enthusiasm for the design research outcomes (although the
story is often retold as them being 'design outcomes'!)
Warm regards,
Terry
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Terence Love [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:21 AM
> It's easy to forget the main reasons for design research:
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> 4. To reduce industry and business reliance on a small cadre of
> primadonna individuals
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> 13. To commoditize design activity as a service
Past list discussions have included questioning why designers fail to
embrace design research and why some even seem hostile. I'm wondering if
anyone has done any further thinking on the subject.
Gunnar
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