Design Thoughts

Each one of us gets married to a plethora of tasks in our short lived life. So many of them that we almost get aligned to thousand different things under the title “ To be Done” I wonder what about going reverse, how many tasks do we actually need to survive as a human. As an infant we are do not have many tasks. So when we are small little kiddies we have the liberty to do anything, because our mom takes care of the food, bath and even changing diapers. But as we grow up our tasks line up to be a human. We have to eat food, which includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. We have to go to toilet when our body gives us alarm. We have to take a bath everyday. We have to cut our nails every month. We have to cut our hair when they grow badly. We have to brush our teeth everyday. As we grow, we carry these tasks are added more and more we have to shave (for girls they have to wax their legs) we have to wear clothes….and so on. As cultures change these tasks vary as age changes many tasks get a...

Excerpts from Schons "Reflective Practioner" Reflective practitioners perform on-the-spot experiments to see if they have framed the problem in the correct way, meaning that the problem can be tackled in a manner that is agreeable to the practitioner and that keeps the "inquiry" moving ahead..... Unlike scientists, practitioners undertake these experiments not just to understand the situation, but to change it into something better. Experiments consist of "moves" like in chess. Any hypothesis has to "lend itself to embodiment in a move." A practitioner makes a move and sees how the situation "responds" to that move, each move acting as a sort of "exploratory probe" of the situation. Dan Daffer Reviews it on his blog

A small Exceprt from Erik Stolterman's paper The Nature of Design Practice and Implications for Interaction Design Research Design education can prepare for such situations, but it cannot prescribe how to act in them. If someone is not prepared to handle such complexity, methods and techniques cannot with any “guarantee” guide anyone through such situations. One example of an approach that manages to fulfill this requirement is manifested in the notions of reflection-in-action, reflectionon- action and design repertoire by Schön (1983). With these concepts Schön intended to give designers tools for reflection that they can use to continuously develop their design abilities . A little more about the reflective practioner by Schon here(Dan Saffers Blog)