Don,
I agree.
I think that a radical transformation of design education is coming
soon or there will be no design profession in the West.
Rob Curedale
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Don Norman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A quick response to Terry
>
> 1. Terry puts far too much emphasis on so-called "design decisions"
> made by software. I don't know what planet Terry resides on (somewhat
> south of Australia?), but I don't see that kind of intelligence, real
> or artificial, in the computer programs used by most practicing
> designers.
>
> 2. Terry says we ought to train people to design the programs. Um, we
> already do. Where has Terry been living? In my world, which is Silicon
> Valley, design programs are designed with the aid of User Experience
> (UX) folks, who do study how stuff is used and do contribute to the
> development of the programs. Now, the fact that UX people are mostly
> educated in departments of computer science and in HCI (Human-Computer
> interaction) classes rather than design schools does not change the
> fact that there is training and experience on how to do good
> human-centered design.
>
> The fact that design schools play only a small role in the training of
> U professionals says a lot about design schools, but not about the
> perceived inadequacies of the computer programs. I see no evidence
> that design-school trained designers would do a better job than the
> existing UX people.
>
> Don
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