Category: design process
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Design research: Zoom out – Zoom in
The end of November was quite a busy time. First I travelled all the way to Covilhí£, a small city in the North of Portugal to attend and present my research work at the DESIGNA Conference organised by the Universidade da Beira Interior. This design conference invited art and design researchers and students to present…
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A closer view to Conceptual Design
Some information design projects often have a deep level of complexity and deal with high amounts of information. The creation of one or more documents to aid (information) designers in the process before they begin with prototype design is highly necessary. Conceptual design is the stage where these documents are created, as it is when…
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One thing at the time
Everyone says that, but not everyone does that (including me, of course!). In daily life we tend to do as many things at the same as we can (manage more than one project at the same time, liaise with different people, make decisions, write reports, write papers, just to mention some working tasks), and unfortunately,…
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(End)Users within the Design Process
The terms ‘User’ and ‘End-user’ can be easily used with the inappropriate meaning. In Design we often talk about: the users of the design outcomes, or who are the users of…?, as referring to the audience of a particular design solution. However, according to dictionary.com, the most appropriate term would be ‘end-user’ to refer to…
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(Info) Design Associations, Journals, Online Platforms
The communication of new data and information to others is what transforms information and data into knowledge and thus what makes possible the development of a discipline. (Design) researchers can build up their work on others only if previous works have been properly documented (there are some requisites that have to be followed). Since design…
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Adopt a design method!
I have briefly mentioned the importance of design methods for design practice and the current lack of design methodologists in a previous post. Now, I will go further explaining why design methods are essential for the design discipline more than ever. Gregory (1966), Jones (1992), Conley (2004) and Cross (2001, 2007), among others, have pointed…
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Types and approaches of (Design) research
Now the term practice-led has become a common term for me, but not before I started my PhD research I realised that there were different types of art and design research. Up to that time, I thought that all investigations had to be ”˜practice’ as their aim was to develop ”˜something’. I had in mind…
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1st CIDAG
Last week I was in Lisbon, Portugal, attending the 1st International Conference on Design and Graphic Printing (CIDAG). In addition to graphic printing other areas of design, such as corporate design and information design were discussed. I have been invited to do the opening keynote lecture for the information design area after Joan Costa, who…
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Content is all
Last week, I attended to Edward Tufte’s lecture at the Royal Geographical Society. As he has mentioned in one of his books, there was a set of visual material related to the presentation for everyone in the audience, the lecture began on time, and he finished one minute before. In general, Tufte presented a historical…
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what information designers do
I often find myself explaining what information designers do and not finding the exact words to make myself clear. Related to this, I think that the Special Report about Information Design, included in the last grafik magazine edition, gives a bit of light to this subject. Paul Stiff, Mike Esbester and Paul Dobraszczyk describe the…
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