[Sigia-l] IA research?

[Anne Miller]

I don't see the problem. I didn't understand this as a discussion about what
design is. My understanding was that we were discussing the relative
contributions of different disciplines to the design process which is
inclusive of a) psychology, which contributes understandings about human
conceptualisation, motivation, learning etc; b) IA (others on this list are
better able than I to define IA's contribution); and c) representation
(ditto); d) any other discipline that can define a contribution. 

If you're suggesting that the complexity and sophistication inherent in all
of these contributions which are needed given the complexity of the problems
to be solved in contemporary design, can be contained in an all knowing
'designer' then this entire discussion (which is important in bridge
building and which till now has been insightful) is rendered irrelevant. Is
this your position?

A




Dr Anne Miller
Program Coordinator, Human Factors Online
www.uq.edu.au/human-factors-online
Key Centre for Human Factors & Applied Cognitive Psychology
Ph: 61 7 3365 4543
Email (preferred): amiller at humanfactors.uq.edu.au


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Sent: Wednesday, 24 November 2004 8:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] IA research?

Anne Miller:

> No-one said anything about pixel pushing!

>> 1. understand the conceptual problem space;

This is where design starts.

>> 3. Represent the IA on screen (design).

Representation is only part of design, not the whole of it, as you put it.
That's pixel pushing, as others (who think design is interior/exterior
decoration) dismiss it.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 



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