Ken,
I can certainly see your point of view.
But I've often thought that there is a single process underlying most if
not all designing.
The best description I've got so far is: if you remove all the
domain-specific knowledge, whatever's left is process knowledge that seems
to be quite consistent across domains.
Anecdotally, I've found that people from many different design disciplines
will agree with me when we talk about 'how designing works' if I keep the
description of how I do/teach it sufficiently abstract in nature.
I'd like to think that the kernel of designing lives in that common
methodological/process knowledge.
But that's just me.
/fas
On 14 June 2012 08:34, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> As I see it, design is indeed a common human activity, but it is not a
> single discipline. Rather, design is a series of disciplines that meet
> in the frame of planning purposeful change toward a desired future.
>
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