- Apr 2025
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faculty.washington.edu faculty.washington.edu
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Maintaining emotional distance from ideas. If you’re too attached with an idea, you might not see or accept a better one that you or someone else discovers.Seeking critique. No one has enough perspective or knowledge to know everything good and bad about design on their own. Seeking the perspective of others on an idea helps complete this picture.
These are the reasons why I find design more challenging than other industries. We want human-centered product, but maintaining emotional distance from ideas. We seek critique, but need to come up with several versions that I'm satisfied with for critique. Isn't that way too time-consuming and chanllenges designers' confidence? I feel that designers are the sand between rocks with the most freedome to adapt to the user, enviroment, and budget.
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faculty.washington.edu faculty.washington.edu
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Other paradigms might be easier, since they involve giving up less power, working less with affected communities, and therefore taking less time. But that just means designing something that may be less effective, sustainable, and successful.
My question: why not working on several versions of a product specified for different users? My answer: 1)high cost; 2) users may still feel offended to see designers put labels on them for XXX version. My further question: are users and designers value design-justice at the same extent? if not, how come?
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Bricolage uses appropriation, but goes beyond it, assembling novelty through recombination. Like appropriation, it is not an explicit process, but a kind of activity that humans engage in that can arrive at new designs.
The concept of 'new design' is pointing out to the relationship of design and object as well. A new design is based on an existing design, but we still call it new because some features/functions have changed. This makes me thing of when Google lens and Apple Watch are invented, designers didn't create a completely new word to call it but use existing word as the base. Thus, design an object is also the process of redefing or creating a new language.
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- Apr 2024
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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if you spend all your time in point-scoring environments, you will become used to life being about scoring points. And you will begin to adopt that approach and begin to adopt those values without even realizing it
This reminds me of all the economics courses. By modeling everything within a specifc framework with accurate calculations, it is easier to manage users as they are put into separate groups according to their characteristics. The demographics include wealth, interest, race, gender…I feel that the point-scoring system has the same effect as financial models
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the number of point systems that surround me, the popularity of point systems as a way for me to track, modify, and judge my behavior, and for others to do the same to me, has just exploded.
Being exposed to excessive amount of information is a good way to apply point system on humans. However, somebody in the 1700s didn't realize the point system may due to the inmobility of hierachy and geographic locations. There was not need to build a system to categorize people because the clear distinguishable factors already contribute to a solid seld identity.
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