On Thursday, December 13, 2007, at 11:25AM, "David Malouf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jack, is this a design degree or a research degree? A design degree is >about craft. Craft is about making.
Design is not the same as build - and design is not strictly craft. Design is designing... is is an intangible process that in most cases results in an artifact. That artifact may be a conceptual representation of the final result. There are very important differentiations here. For many designers, they are done at the plan stage. Again we circle around to this 'what is design' issue, but IMHO it is much larger than craft. > >to answer Mark, an architect IS expected to build something. Either >in 3D tools creating walk through virtual spaces, or to build in >balsa and other materials a representation of the space. No - he builds a simulation or prototype. It can be in the plan descriptions (text), a physical model (materials) or a virtual model (code), but it is not necessarily the final result as stated in the original question. > >They are required to do this, so that anyone who comes to the piece >understands what the designer is trying to communicate. If all i >delievered was a sketch and blueprints, this would not come through. > >I think Jonas nailed in on the head. You have to be able to >prototype, b/c if you can't interact with the solution, you haven't >actually made something that has interaction design modeled enough to >communicate those interactions. The subtelties of IxD require that >transition, flow, and movement are all part of the ending "make" >deliverable. Everything else is just falling short of the real need. >At the masters level you have to make something. > A master's degree, and especially a Ph.D, is typically about specificity. Focusing on a portion of a process is often the only way to get that finite. >This is very different from a deployable and production ready system. > >-- dave ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
