TY - GEN
T1 - Practical quagmires
AU - Bardzell, Jeffrey
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - The practical challenge for the interaction design community is to clarify the understandings of the norms, expectations, and conventions that are commonly associate with critical designs, and to critique and change them, as needed, to make them more fruitful. One approach is to talk to the designer and ask her or his intent. Designers prototyping critical designs need some way to know which prototypes are more critical than others, or how they can or need to be improved. Conversely, it is also easy to imagine a designer intending to create a critical design, engaging in critical design processes, but then creating a design that is not actually critical. The designer intending a design to be critical intends for an appropriate public also to find that design critical. Designs can be presented to people as critical by virtue of their titles and descriptions; their inclusion in certain collections, catalogs, articles, or books; the prior reputations of their designers; and so on.
AB - The practical challenge for the interaction design community is to clarify the understandings of the norms, expectations, and conventions that are commonly associate with critical designs, and to critique and change them, as needed, to make them more fruitful. One approach is to talk to the designer and ask her or his intent. Designers prototyping critical designs need some way to know which prototypes are more critical than others, or how they can or need to be improved. Conversely, it is also easy to imagine a designer intending to create a critical design, engaging in critical design processes, but then creating a design that is not actually critical. The designer intending a design to be critical intends for an appropriate public also to find that design critical. Designs can be presented to people as critical by virtue of their titles and descriptions; their inclusion in certain collections, catalogs, articles, or books; the prior reputations of their designers; and so on.
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U2 - 10.1145/2527064
DO - 10.1145/2527064
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84887485166
SN - 1072-5520
VL - 20
SP - 10
EP - 11
JO - Interactions
JF - Interactions
ER -