Friday, 7 November 2008

Designers Think...

After reading the Ways of designers think I released there are some good points that it would be nice to point them out :

There are no optimal design solutions

I do accept the fact that we can say a design work its successful when its been test and the viewers had respond to it, in other words we can say when they understood it.
there is an other good point in this part which it points out the role of culture in design if we do not share same cultural back ground we would risk our design in order to not to communicate.
On the other hand we have to keep in mind we would never have a complete communication as for example the word apple stands for me differently than some one else's.

Design solutions are contribution to knowledge

As a designer we translate the complicated information in to a easer information to be easily understood and be useful for different ranges. we have to point out there are tow good points about it first of all when we represent our work we will give a new information to the user in same time from each presentation we will learn new key points. the way we present our Ideas are sometimes more important than the idea itself.

The process involves finding as well as solving problem

I f we accept the best way of telling our information is to tell it as a story and the best way to know how you have understood your design is when you present it, Referring to Stefan Sagmeister says (in his book How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul) some times we have to present our work with out showing it, in other words we have to draw it in our viewer mind and play round with there imagination with just talking about our design. if we learn to talk affectively about our work we will see we can communicate more.

Design is prescript activity

As a designer we need to focus how it might help the user or how could be used... but in my point of view it is more important to we answer the question to why we do this design ? why we chose this color and so on ... in this way we would have a answer for all we do in our process and we wont make it so personalized its true what aver a designer do they can stop them self to personalizing it but adding and changing the design just we fell we like it its not reasonable.
in this way we would be self-centered and we will come with a narrow outlook.

Designers work in the context of a need for action

Most of the time For a designer design is fun and after a wile it will be there life however the nature of design is to solve a problem and problem solving so its not always in designer hand to work free but they can chose which problem to solve.
but as a wrong or right I don't think there is any wrong or right in design as David Carson showed in his work there is no rule in design but it is still communicating so we can say different designers present differently it is at this stage which we can say we just have one rule the design should communicates thats all.

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