Friday, August 5, 2005

Designing for, um, design? Peter Merholz on the meaning of design: That Word "Design": Maybe Not So Tricky After All. A little over two years ago I wrote a post, "The Tricky Word, 'Design.'" In it, I discussed how Adaptive Path was avoiding the word design on our website, because when used without qualifiers, it meant visual design.. [peterme.com] Of particular interest, Peter quotes Dan Brown, who says "I've started replacing the words 'user experience' in my writing with 'design.'" I talk about user experience, but it always makes me a bit queasy: don't we really mean a positive user experience? That's the goal, right? But if "design" can come to mean that Big-D-Design, I'd rather talk about that than about user experience. Not that I'm particularly qualified in any case. . . but will the Designing for User Experiences (DUX) conference become the Designing Design conference? Not this year, anyway. 9:25:41 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

Can you say "mainstream"? Sure you can. IBM does podcasts. 9:00:00 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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