1.3 What is good design and good designing? - Design - OpenLearn - The Open University
A good design is one that appropriately answers a requirement, or meets a stated need. Good design also concerns the anticipation of what people may want. Of course, values come into play here and wants may range from the apparently trivial to fundamental needs. Good design might also concern the skilful use of technology, such as materials or manufacturing techniques. It might also imply the exploitation of knowledge, for example information on human size or human perception so as to make a product easier to use.
To be involved in designing, then, means to be involved with using skills (e.g. researching, making, testing), using knowledge (e.g. about things, people, principles), using abilities (e.g. time planning, management), and using sensitivities (e.g. to values, context, markets). It is notoriously difficult to take this further and attempt to define a formula for a process which will lead to successful design. Having said this, in Section 3 I shall present some models of the design process as others have seen it. I hope that you will view these critically and be able to see the strengths and weaknesses of each.
1.1 Design - Design - OpenLearn - The Open University
- The term design can be, and indeed is, used to describe the creative output
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Introduction to Political Thought
Spring 2004
Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651. Holmes Collection. (Image courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress.)
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Course Description
This course examines major texts in the history of political thought and the questions they raise about the design of the political and social order. It considers the ways in which thinkers have responded to the particular political problems of their day, and the ways in which they contribute to a broader conversation about human goods and needs, justice, democracy, and the proper relationship of the individual to the state. One aim will be to understand the strengths and weaknesses of various regimes and philosophical approaches in order to gain a critical perspective on our own. Thinkers include Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and Tocqueville.
Michail Ryklin: In the burning house
- How is it possible to amputate a part of oneself? How can one learn to see again without the assisting gaze of the other, which had become so much a part of oneself that it was no longer noticeable?
- How is it possible to amputate a part of oneself? How can one learn to see again without the assisting gaze of the other, which had become so much a part of oneself that it was no longer noticeable?
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