What Makes a designer a Designer
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What makes a designer a designer? Adam Williams
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This is my personal design theory presentation for Erik Stolterman's "Design Theory" course.
Transcript of What Makes a designer a Designer
What makes a designer a designer?
Adam Williams
Creative Process
Scientific Process
Artistic Process
Design Process
Types of Knowledge
True
Real
Ideal
Science Design Art
True Hypothesis Status-quo Technique
Real Experiment Product Artwork
Ideal Knowledge* Desire Vision
*Scientific knowledge is ideal in that it is ideally coherent, but always contingent on further experimentation.
Science Design Art
Knowledge True Ideal Real
Goals Knowledge Desiderata Expression
Methods Experimenting Prototyping Creating
Differences
So who is a designer then?
Everyone is a designer, as much as everyone is an artist or scientist.
What separates them from everyone else is a not just a matter of education and experience.
It is also a matter of goals.
