A designer's diary
I play dice with the rakshasas and try to understand the patterns of our world.
Entropy
The title of this diary is Entropy of Design. It is simply a reflection of my personal opinion. I do not hope that it will be the holder of the truth, but that it will open up new perspectives.
Coming soon
Design has always seemed to me to be, more than a field, an interspace that links sciences and methods to bring a vision to life.
Go to the in-between spaces page
In-between spaces
Meanwhile
Ideas become notes that turn into thoughts... Beware of a designer's obsessions!
Coming soon
There’s method in his madness
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
My (borrowed) definition of Design
A certain vision of Design
Industrial design, product design, graphic design, space design, digital design, engineering design, project management... Design is as polymorphous as its origins.
They all derive from the Latin "Designare", to mark with a sign, to have a plan (drawing) of a task to accomplish (design).
Signing is above all an intellectual activity that goes through several stages. First of all, you have to identify the problem (the task to be accomplished), recognise it, accept it as true once it has been verified, and qualify it according to appropriate and chosen criteria. Then you have to distinguish it and understand how it is different, and measure it according to each of the previously defined criteria. Finally, we need to guide those who have the problem, informing them of its context and helping them to understand the direct and indirect consequences of solving it.
"The act of design is contextual. Its essence is the art of learning to discern this context before proposing an appropriate object/service. The framework for your design thinking cannot therefore be reduced to a process, a sequence of deliverables."
That's what I wanted to say to the young digital designers I met when recruiting. The thinking that comes out of features factories and their Ironhack/bootcamp-style training courses only sums up a few predetermined contexts and is often interpreted by them as the finished framework of design.