Is part of the issues that Don touches on related to the divide between
right and left brain? I know that this is an old horse.
Design Research is guided by the left brain and "giving detailed clear
explanations" and design practice is about right brain "integrating
scattered information into a global views". Maybe we always need two models
and two explanations for everything that we discuss. It is hard for the
design researcher to understand the designer's thinking and also the
designer to understand the researcher.
Shouldn't the best model for understanding design practice be a right brain
type of model? A picture is worth a thousand words?
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Don wrote:
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> My home happens to come from science and engineering. Many designers were
> trained in departments of mechanical engineering (product design and
> industrial design). Many from departments of design where the faculty have
> various histories. And many from schools of art and/or architecture which
> has its own history. And in many of those departments the PhD is mainly for
> people who do criticism or history. In Science and engineering, you get
> PhDs
> for fundamental contributions to knowledge, not for criticism, not for
> history.
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> One reason we often fail to communicate is because these disciplines are so
> different. Because the language and philosophy differ.
>
> the social and behavioral sciences use methods that are similar to those in
> the hard sciences and engineering. But art and literature is very
> different....
>
> No wonder we have such different backgrounds, methods and vocabularies. No
> wonder we cannot agree what constitutes a PhD, or for that matter, what
> constitutes a masters degree: MS? MA? MFA? MDes?
>
> Confusedly yours,
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> Don Norman
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