[Sigia-l] Empathy

malahat at telus.net malahat at telus.net
Tue Sep 5 04:19:21 EDT 2006


Hi,

How are they different? and why are they different??

thanks if you define..
:)

malahat








Quoting "David (Heller) Malouf" <dave.ixd at gmail.com>:

> oy! do I really want to go here again!
> 
> Ziya, it is clear that you and I think differently about professions.
> I'm an eternal internal who is cultured in definitions and boundaires.
> You are an enternal external who doesn't understand why anyone every
> needs to be internal (I think that's what you said in a past thread
> where we've engaged about a year ago).
> 
> For me a designer is someone who is trained in or understands the
> formal studio training that has defined design education for better
> part of the last 75 years. yes it has transformed, but studio is at
> the heart of that training and education. It is what makes a designer
> a designer.
> 
> IAs have traditionally come from a background that combines CS and LIS
> disciplines, where the solutions that designers and IAs work on have
> deep overlap, but their traditional methods and practices are pretty
> different.
> 
> As I've recently posited in a class
> Design as a noun has too many meanings to be useful
> Design as a verb as well
> But the term exists and I'm here to reclaim it.
> 
> Design is != creation
> Just b/c you create doesn't mean you do design (n; discipline) or
> design (v; practice of n).
> 
> -- dave
> 
> 
> On 9/1/06, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > David (Heller) Malouf:
> >
> > > "Not all Information Architects are Designers"
> >
> > How so?
> >
> > ----
> > Ziya
> >
> > Usability >  Simplify the Solution
> > Design >  Simplify the Problem
> >
> >
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> -- 
> David (Heller) Malouf
> dave.ixd at gmail.com
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