Design Sensibility
Developing Design Sensibility
Design Across Disciplines And Scales
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Reading : Developing Design Sensibility
The main idea that is expressed in the reading is how designers take in consideration what the consumers would "feel" about the design in order to hit the criteria that the target market wants. My favorite sentence from the reading is "Combining design methods with strong design sensibilities is a sure way to avoid ending up with a box of mints that taste good, but that no one wants." (Suri & Hendrix, 2010, p. 63). This sentence summarizes the whole reading and the purpose behind writing it.
This idea of design sensibilities is something all designers should implement into their designs and ideas. The more that we look at the wants and needs of the target market, the more successful the mission of fulfilling a gap with the design will be.
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Lecture : Design Across Disciplines And Scales
In this lecture, the definition of design was discussed in regards of what it is and what it is not. Design is normally associated with making things "nice" and "pretty" while forgetting about how things are made and the ideas behind them. People look at the form and forget about the function that design proposes solutions for. Furthermore, we can see design being explored in different scales and disciplines due it being a combination of culture, technology and economy as well as art, science and business.
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The "Powers of Ten" by Charles and Ray Eames is a perfect example of design across scales. It takes the viewer on a journey to explore the universe that we are in. The universe contains many examples of design at macro scale as well as micro scales in which both are shown ingeniously in the film.
Bibliography
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Anon, Zooming in and out of UX design resolutions. Creating a UX Strategy Playbook. Available at: https://playbook.uie.com/blog/zooming-in-and-out-of-ux-design-resolutions [Accessed October 11, 2021].
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​Jane Fulton Suri and R. Michael Hendrix (2010). Developing Design Sensibilities. [online] Available at: http://5a5f89b8e10a225a44ac-ccbed124c38c4f7a3066210c073e7d55.r9.cf1.rackcdn.com/files/pdfs/DevelopingDesignSensibilities.pdf.
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