1) People who have worked in and have been trained in the processes around studio/crit * this could be anyone who has either gone to a design school, or figured out on their own to learn what is learned in a design school, or gained the experience of design school studio through vocational experience.
2) People who practice multi-linear, exploration as their creative practice, as opposed to linear thinking I'll stop there. To me the question is annoying. Why? b/c so much of the question is already couched in this assumption that "everyone is a designer"; The engineer, the banker, my grandmother, etc. It is also a trap b/c "design" is such a nothing term, so to use the term "design" by itself, is meaningless. The contexts are important. So in my mind, most interactive designers are not designers, in that they actually apply aesthetic treatments usually using techniques that are derived from engineering practices more than from the traditional design school processes. Yes, there is room for hybrids in this world and we should always be willing to take the best of everything we can expose ourselves to, but I believe there is something at the core of design practice, methods, education, and systems that is worth holding on to. design != creation or creativity -- dave On Jan 25, 2008 2:04 PM, Mark Schraad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So Dave, > > Only because I know that you don't mind being put on the spot. How do you > define who is a designer? What are the criteria? > > Mark > > > > On Friday, January 25, 2008, at 10:57AM, "dave malouf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Sure, (Kumbaya!) we are all "D"esigners, great! (I actually think > >that most of us aren't designers, btw, but that's a separate > >topic). > > -- David Malouf http://synapticburn.com/ http://ixda.org/ http://motorola.com/ ________________________________________________________________ *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
