David Roedl

This week in Design Theory there was some interesting reading and discussion about the relationship between design and craft. Here are a couple open-ended questions that were brought to my mind:
1) In his book, Design Methods, John Chris Jones describes how in traditional craftsmanship, small incremental changes are made over long periods of time based [...]

As Adam and others have observed, last weeks classes on pre-writing interestingly revealed the similarity between the process of design and the process of writing. This is a really great insight for me, and I am surprised that I haven’t contemplated it before.

This was written for and originally posted on the Interaction Culture class blog
As Gillian Smith points out (in her forward to Designing Interactions), Interaction Design has drawn heavily on the ‘existing expressive languages’ of non-digital mediums. She breaks these traditional languages down into 4 ‘dimensions’: 1 – words and literature, 2 – painting, graphic design, [...]