discussion 1

After reading the Designerly Ways of Knowing and What Designers Know it makes you really think about the process you use in order to get to the design concept and idea that you have. As I ready What designers know I realized the importance of sketches and drawing when it comes to designing. I myself am big about sketching and drawing my ideas before I actually put them in a full perspective. It talking about how a lot of designers wont even start to think or talk about thing without having a pencil and paper in their hand. I am one of those people. When talking or going over ideas I have to have a pen or pencil in hand. I like to take ideas of which I see and put them in sketches rather than write text about the ideas. I am a more visual learner and its easier for myself to draw these ideas out and look at them and know exactly what I was thinking. I find it more helpful to be able to see the ideas in sketch form because a lot of times one cannot understand what someone is saying when they are just in paragraph form. Everyone ends up having a different vision of the idea.

Also it is important to try more than one idea. After trying once although you may like your idea and find it successful 9 out of 10 times if you continue to combine the ideas you found less successful with those that are, you will find that the final result will be end up a lot better than the first one. This also leads to process and end result. I have come to learn through my interior architecture classes along with my art classes that it is not always about the end result. It is more about the process. How did you get to where you are? How are you going to get where you plan on going with this? What products/materials are you going to use? And why? These are all things that people need to think about when designing and if the exploration of these questions are not taken into consideration then the end result will not be as finished and thought out as it could be.