sorry, Ken
It has become very common in the circles I inhabit to distinguish between
"design" and "Design." Design, with an upper case D, refers to the
profession rather than to the noun or verb.
Other fields often do capitalize their names, but I can't think of any
other field where its name is also a common noun and/or verb. So we have
greater need to make the distinction. (But I often write that I am also in
the Department of Cognitive Science.)
As for grammar? Grammar changes to reflect the needs of the times. As does
the meaning of words. And even things such as making nouns into verbs,
forming the past tense (I goed to a meeting yesterday is lawful, but today,
ungrammatical (it once was proper). Past tense of go is no longer goed, it
is went). I find it useful to distinguish design from Design.
Don
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> The odd usage of upper-case initials on common nouns such as “design,”
> “art,” or “craft” has been bothering me for some time. Using upper-case
> initials for common nouns is a mistake unless the word appears as the first
> word in a sentence. Words like “design,” “design research,” “design
> thinking,” and “research community” are common nouns. They aren’t proper
> nouns or names — they don’t require capital letters.
>
Don Norman
Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego: Think Observe Make
Prof. Emeritus Cognitive Science & Psychology, UCSD
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