Paper Info
Title
What is the object of design?
Abstract
In this paper we reflect upon design at a conceptual level, discussing how creativity can be coupled with participation and experience, dialoguing with philosophers and social theorists, and looking for the experiential grounds of our understanding of the very nature of design. Three words: 'drawing', 'thing' and 'together', are at the center of our discourse. We propose a view of design as accessing, aligning, and navigating among the 'constituents' of the object of design. People interact with the object of design through its constituents. The object of design is to draw things together.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2212776.2212780
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
experiential ground,people interact,social theorist,conceptual level,interaction design,design,design theory,object,drawing,design process
Experiential learning,World Wide Web,Design education,Interaction design,Computer science,Environmental graphic design,Human–computer interaction,Design research,Design process,Designtheory,Experience design
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.45
8
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Binder123840.22
de michelis247384.68
Pelle Ehn319743.14
Giulio Jacucci41701126.44
Per Linde5286.54
Ina Wagner676287.66