Hi Don and list
To be honest, I might have had more than "one problem" :-)
I do appreciate your comment on why you quoted Moggridge, and I agree with
you. He deserves a tribute as a thinker that manifested a designerly way of
thinking and doing.
As someone who has over the years read Donald Schon (and might some day
write a book about his contributions to practice and design philosophy), I
really appreciate your note on drawing. Schon examined the intricate, rich
and complex relationship between imagination (inside our minds and
thoughts) and the real (manifestations and representations in some physical
form). His thoughts on this are, in my view, still most insightful and
valuable. So, I am looking forward to read your thoughts about that topic.
[As a side note, if someone has some unknown writings by Schon I would be
very happy to get a copy or a reference. I think I have all his books, some
which are difficult to find today, but I miss a lot of his smaller papers
and articles.]
Erik Stolterman
http://transground.blogspot.com/
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Erik Stolterman*
*Professor in Informatics*
*School of Informatics and Computing*
*Indiana University, Bloomington
*http://transground.blogspot.com/
<http://www.organizationaldesigncompetence.com/>
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Don Norman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Just a short note to thank the several of you on this list (among others)
> who have commented on my "Rethinking Design Thinking" article.
>
> Thanks, Elizabeth, for the pointer to Lucy's article entitled, hmm,
> "Rethinking Design Thinking," an article i am sorry to say, I had not known
> about. It certainly would have been helpful to me had I read it before i
> wrote my own article.
>
> And thanks, Erik, for your comments. You say "I have one problem with
> Norman's new position though." Really? Only one? Hell, I can list several
> other problems that I have (and I suspect you do too.)
>
> I agree with your critique. In writing my piece I hesitated a lot before
> trying to describe what I thought design thinking was because not only did
> my brief introduction leave out a lot that I thought to be critical, but i
> also knew that many good design thinkers would not agree with my
> overly-specific definition (and that i would probably agree with their
> disagreement). I was also concerned that my quotation from Moggridge
> would cause some to believe I was an IDEO partisan who did not admit to any
> other possible approach to design. Not true: I quoted Bill because I
> thought the quote appropriate, and also as a small tribute to his
> contributions to the practice. Still, in the end, i thought that the
> diverse readership would require some definition.
>
> I also agree that design thinking is really a framework or point of view
> that inspires critical analysis of the problem and its possible solutions.
>
> On a side note, I have long struggled to understand the roles that
> thinking, knowing, representing (via words, sketches, and models), and
> doing have on the creative process. I'm contemplating a short essay for
> this list on drawing and sketching, one that does not propose answers but
> rather lists some of the questions that need answering. Drawing is a much
> under-appreciateds tool for thought. Or perhaps, drawing is a mode of
> thought.
>
> Don
> www.jnd.org
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