Again from Dick Buchanan, in his Governing Ideas white paper for Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design:<\/p>\n
1. Designers must be inventive in conceiving the possibilities of a product.<\/p>\n
2. Designers must be able to judge which of their inventions are viable in the contingent circumstances of manufacture and human use.<\/p>\n
3. Designers must be able to make connections among many fields of knowledge essential for the development of a product and, based on such connections, draw reasonable conclusions or make decisions about the plan of a product.<\/p>\n
4. Designers must be able to evaluate the results of conception and planning and choose a final solution based on values, preferences, and goals before a product is carried forward to clients and, ultimately, to human users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So it’s all about Creating, Judging, Deciding, Choosing:<\/p>\n
“The real subjects of the new intellectual free trade among the many cultures are our own thought processes, our processes of judging, deciding, choosing, and creating.” — Herb Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Update: Jamin Hegeman, MDes 2008, recently posted on Buchanan’s latest thoughts re: the core competencies of design: http:\/\/jamin.org\/archives\/2008\/core-competencies-of-design\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Again from Dick Buchanan, in his Governing Ideas white paper for Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design: 1. Designers must be inventive in conceiving the possibilities of a product. 2. Designers must be able to judge which of their inventions are viable in the contingent circumstances of manufacture and human use. 3. Designers must be able … Continue reading “Core design abilities”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff","category-theoretical-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}