Cleaning up my desk... I came across yet another pile of paper scrap notes!
Jon Kolko -> mentioned by a student, check them out more.
- Translate research into insights
- Abductive Reasoning
- Sensemaking
- compare design synthesis to sensemaking
- good questions, but good questions don't equal good participation
- integration of diverse ideas and concepts
- problem solving and innovation
- personal expression and voice
- expanding skills
- engage with self and environmental issues
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Design is something that affects us all
Visual Language = "reading" things other than just words
Designers expand people's ability to see the world in new ways.
Design is a medium that works best in the service of something or someone else. Champion someone else's work or idea. Design is as valued as society itself
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
Min-Gei crafts of the people, contrast with aristocratic fine arts.
objects used by ordinary people in their ordinary lives
Folk Craft # Daily Use # Common, Ordinary # Not Expensive # Produced in large quantity # Embedded into ordinary people's lives.
Objects Honesty: fulfill the practical purpose for which the object is made.
This sounds a lot like Super Normal from Jasper Morrison