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Guidelines for future-ready design research. This can also inform how we can create a future-ready venture as an artifact. 💡 L.G. Pee, Shan L. Pan, Jingyuan Wang & Junjie Wu (2021) Designing for the future in the age of pandemics: a future-ready design research (FRDR) process, European Journal of Information Systems, 30:2, 157-175, DOI: 10.1080/0960085X.2020.1863751

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Research on Universal Design: my recently published article has reached a little milestone, 20 reads after a comparatively short time, according to Researchgate. https://lnkd.in/djcA5egB ... is where it can be found. What did I learn from this work? What can designers use? The lesson for me was that designers need to be really conscious of the design tools they use and the kind of data they want to collect. It seems a bit banal (it is) but also true that a lof of the time we´re using the same tools and therefore getting the same kind of data from them. Bevica Fonden DSKD #design #universaldesign #inclusivedesign

If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things. It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life. Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things #designthinking #productdesign #problemsolving

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Finding that sweet-spot between Desirable, Feasible, and Viable/Sustainable is a wonderful balance between art and science. Finding the right balance in every situation is the challenge.

Design is not art. It's craft. I'm here to convince you that I am correct here. As a designer and as an artist, cause I do both. This is my comment to Bob Baxley's post, but I wonder what do you think? I have to disagree hard, Bob Baxley. (Although I am not quite sure if I'm right, it's an ongoing discussion I have the last couple of months). But let me disagree to see if I have a stronger position. When was the last time you've heard of usability studies on an art piece? Art is a completely different mindset to me. I am a system and interface designer, and I am also a singer-songwriter musician recording and producing original songs. And a graphic designer, and a visual 3D artist back in the day. Art has no care for any measurements. Design of usable products does care about how it is used. Art doesn't. Design is craft. It's nowhere near art. Beautiful interfaces aren't art. They are beautiful interfaces. People confusing beauty for art have probably never did art. Never threw themselves into the abyss to pull something from it. Free exploration of one's ideas is art. The pursuit itself is art. The effect of the art is not that important, as any artist worth his salt should tell you. What is the most important aspect of creating art is WHERE YOU HAVE TO GO, INTERNALLY, TO BRING THIS LITTLE OFFERING BACK. Art is response to a call from a higher self. Your own art will surprise you years after you made it. "Oh shit, that's what I felt!" Design is craft. It has an expected result in mind, whereas art couldn't care less. Art's main function is to allow a person to express themselves in their own, unique way. Design's main funciton is to solve a particular problem, efficiently, using as little resources as possible (good design, that is). Maybe that broad understanding is just a circle-jerk of people who don't do both things and confuse them. Maybe I am wrong, but man, I don't think so. What do you think?