Comments on: Get Better. http://www.xemion.com/blog/get-better-53.html Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:24:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Dianne Bengtson http://www.xemion.com/blog/get-better-53.html#comment-406 Dianne Bengtson Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:26:41 +0000 http://www.xemion.com/blog/get-better-53.html#comment-406 Great post. The question then becomes how to get better. I saw a TED podcast about design recently that inspired me to think about Web design in a larger sense. I think it made me a better desiger, and a designer better able to articulate what I think about design. The talk is “Treating design as art” by Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York’s MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/207. A quick summary: Good design addresses the useful and functional characteristics, as well as visual appeal. Designers synthesize the technologies. The functional and visual are fused via the possibilities of the medium into a design that makes it more than the sum of its parts. I think Web designers do this as a part of the process, and it is what customers pay us for, whether they realize it or whether they just "need a Website". In terms of growth as a designer, this and other excellent work about design can give a framework to think about our own craft. I am actively looking for other resources like this. If anyone has any to share, please pass them along. Great post. The question then becomes how to get better.

I saw a TED podcast about design recently that inspired me to think about Web design in a larger sense. I think it made me a better desiger, and a designer better able to articulate what I think about design.

The talk is “Treating design as art” by Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York’s MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/207.

A quick summary:

Good design addresses the useful and functional characteristics, as well as visual appeal. Designers synthesize the technologies. The functional and visual are fused via the possibilities of the medium into a design that makes it more than the sum of its parts.

I think Web designers do this as a part of the process, and it is what customers pay us for, whether they realize it or whether they just “need a Website”.

In terms of growth as a designer, this and other excellent work about design can give a framework to think about our own craft.

I am actively looking for other resources like this. If anyone has any to share, please pass them along.

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