The past 3 weeks I’ve been really confused as to how I’m going to involve my capstone in this class… until today (YAY!). Today’s activity was actually perfect for my capstone. Making the assumption that the Cisco shopping concept was made to meet the needs of the fast-paced, efficient nature of our society perfectly paralleled an article I recently read (for capstone). Here’s the article if you’d like to read it. Interesting stuff on designing for a modern culture versus a non-modern culture.
Anyway, the point is i’m going to start making a conscious effort to use the “4 ways in” when it comes to the exemplars and articles I’m reading.
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January 24, 2013 at 5:18 pm
jordanbeck
This made me wonder what a reasonable threshold for using the ‘four ways’ in…what I mean is, I think I want to get in the practice of using them all the time not just with exemplars and articles. I recall Jeff telling a story last semester in Foundations about Eli coming over for dinner and critiquing an iPod docking system (I think) you’d just purchased. I want to get to that level of critique and I think the only effective way to do that is to use the four ways in all the time. And that both excites and exhausts me..
January 24, 2013 at 10:11 pm
slouraine
It’s like copy editing. Once you start paying attention to writing in that much detail, you can never enjoy yourself again. Never, never.
Or studying linguistics and analyzing people’s speech patterns. What has been heard can never be unheard.
January 25, 2013 at 1:11 am
spoppesnp
Practice should be exhausting though, right? I think you are absolutely correct in that we should be analyzing and asking questions of our surroundings all the time. By using the four ways in, we can practice holistically analyzing designs, and hopefully in time it will become less energy sucking
January 25, 2013 at 9:14 am
meredithelzea
Yeah I take a different opinion on this. I think starting off small is better, for me at least. Focusing the framework on my capstone exemplars and articles will help me practice, which I think will carry over to my every day life. I’m also far from an analytical personality. So if you want to go balls to the walls then I applaud you. But for others, I think practicing in baby steps is just as effective.
January 25, 2013 at 9:19 am
meredithelzea
That was my rapid design for slow change coming out of me. I think this way of thinking is a slow change process for me. I need to take it one step at a time in order to avoid feeling overwhelmed and pissed off.
side note: Wahoooo love me some parallels.