Sunday, October 26, 2008

Method Man - Tane








above is the design process according to Ardent Interactive at:
http://www.ardentinteractive.co.nz/custom-images/ardent-design-process-diagram.jpg
Let us delve into the world of methods. We don't need roads where we're going.
The UK Design Council believes:

Methods are an integral part of the design process. The advantage of using them is to structure a process; they can allow you to hold a team together, aid communication and share viewpoints across multi disciplinary teams. Part of the skill of being a good design strategist is identifying appropriate methods and creating the right conditions for their use.
(http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Design-Methods/The-design-process/)




Below is Method Man.

He raps about the design process, and the methods involved, and the importance of those methods.





Nah he doesn't. (Got you excited for a sec there, Stacy?)

And from what I could glean from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design#Design_disciplines
some methods include:




User-centered design, which focuses on the needs, wants, and limitations of the end user of the designed artifact. (Don't worry, I don't understand the diagram either)

Use-centered design, which focuses on the goals and tasks associated with the use of the artifact, rather than focusing on the end user.




KISS principle, (Keep it Simple Stupid, etc.), which strives to eliminate unnecessary complications

There is more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI), a philosophy to allow multiple methods of doing the same thing.


My personal opinion is that I hate the very notion of methods because they sound restrictive but i'm sure i subconsciously use the same methods over and over again because this produces my personal visual style. I'm still very much an amateur designer and I think methods are more widely used and are more important to professional designers.

I don't like methods. I like imagination.

1 comment:

stacy said...

oscar wilde said “Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”