Klaus,
My experience aligns with what you say. Design takes place in a social context and, as you point out, various stakeholders affect the outcome (including, on the most basic level, formal aspects of a designed object.) Not only is the presentation of design options (verbal, visual, what have you) a vital part of the formation of an outcome but the conversations that take place before what most people think of as designing often shape the design more than the part of the process where the designer sits with design tools doing the "designing."
Gunnar
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On Jan 8, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Klaus Krippendorff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> i have said and written much about the need for designers to realize that they need to propose something that inspires stakeholders in the future of that proposal to do something with it. this does not equate design processes with the writing, visualization, or demonstration of what could become real, but suggest that this is part of the skill set that designers better have. proposals for a future state of affairs that do not inspire those able to make something with them will not lead to anything. in the past, terry has argues strenuously against my saying that language has much to do with whether a design comes to be. in my experiences, much of what designers do is to make drawings, prepare presentations, work out arguments for why their proposal is a good one and this has much to do with communication skills, which goes far beyond the writing of specifications. i have never met a successful designers who cannot argue for what they propose others can realize.
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