Posts tagged with design
I quite like faebric
You gotta be careful too, because there are a lot of these research methods, like the rapid prototyping, like the ideation, like the brainstorming methods, like the ethnography, and so on, there is actually no real evidence that it makes a difference.
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You know what Steve jobs did when he arrived? He fired all of us! And guess what resulted? Better products! Which have revolutionized the way we use machines. And he fired the usability groups as well.
Don Norman at IIT Design Research Conference 2010
and thus explains my inability to engage with usability people.
Also, reading The Design of Everyday Things will be good for you
Maybe it’s studio website refresh day. Hello Universal Everything
Hey look, new Base is finally alive, i like the skype interview portraits the bestest
“ Somewhere along the way on the web, a lot of designers and developers have abandoned common courtesy for condescending quips that drip with pride and ignorance. And these sorts of unsolicited designs, apart from their accompanying snarky commentary, would be interesting cases studies in what young designers think up, apart from the external factors affecting large sites. However, with the attitude they’re currently wrapped in, it’s hard to separate the message from the messenger.”
“ Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”
“ This oneness, or the lack of it, is the fundamental quality for anything. Whether it is in a poem, or a man, or a building full of people, or in a forest, or a city, everything that matters stems from it. It embodies everything.”
Yet still this quality cannot be named.
“ Design is moving from the bottom of the creative food chain to become the essential connector across a range of creative networks. We have become a more visual culture. As communication becomes digital, we become an interface culture, and graphic design - along with the programming - becomes the medium through which we see, read and access the world.”
GREAT DESIGNERS STEAL by Jeff Veen - Ep 28 (via iGNiTe)
“ So where does this reality of Design fit into the discussion of Design within academia? Not well. There is a big gap between Design practitioners (at least at the top consultancies) and Design educators. The debate over doing and thinking taking place within Design Thinking is moot and meaningless in the marketplace. When design consultancies are asked to set up their own “universities” to teach design to corporate managers public leaders as IDEO and ZIBA have done, then we must ask why design schools aren’t playing that role.”
