More often than not, the formatting guidelines for design conferences
are so poor, they would barely meet the most basic standards of graphic design 101.
The same holds for the overall website design and other communication
mediums such as leaflets, conference proceedings’ books, as well as several
journals and books on design research and so on. I wonder why this is the case,
and furthermore to what extent does the poor (ludicrous?) design of design
conferences and other academic mediums of communication affects the message
being conveyed (supposedly that design is somewhat important for the world.)
Reading a poorly designed paper about design is somewhat like attending a lecture
about language where the speaker is constantly making blatant grammatical mistakes.
There is an obvious conflict between the medium and the message.
All of us in the design research community should call for higher standards of design
for all design research communication.
(a slightly annoyed) João Ferreira
PhD candidate, TU Delft
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