Hello João.
Before being too concerned, its possibly good to remember that there are lots of different kinds of design activity and for most fields of design, visual appearance is not particularly central. In many areas of design, visual appearance is of little concern at all.
For those working within the visual design fields, though, I can understand the attitudes of other kinds of designers might be pretty frustrating!
Best wishes,
Terry
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Subject: The (lack of?) design quality of academic paper formatting
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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