Interesting. My first thought is ‘burn them all and dialogue the shit out of all of it’; My second more measured response is not directly but we have explored alternative modes of ‘writing’ in a few different forums. (eg we have a more diverse range of submission formats for our conferences) - ThreadSky

plug103.bsky.social • 77 days ago

Interesting. My first thought is ‘burn them all and dialogue the shit out of all of it’;

My second more measured response is not directly but we have explored alternative modes of ‘writing’ in a few different forums. (eg we have a more diverse range of submission formats for our conferences)

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plug103.bsky.social•77 days ago

A third thought is that we sometimes come across events that explore design textbook authoring - developing new authors (which is also important - new voices are reaaallllly needed).

But we have never yet landed on something that really breaks through some of the shapes and structures

impactology.bsky.social•77 days ago

> design textbook authoring - developing new authors (which is also important - new voices are reaaallllly needed).

Extremely needed Derek, one of the hardest things to do is establishing scope and historical context when introducing concepts during textbook writing

impactology.bsky.social•77 days ago

For example I want to talk about interface design from the perspective of introduction of novel affordances as opposed to simply rendering existing workflows on screen (recover the notions Alan Kay, Douglas Engelbart had on augmenting intellect)

https://bsky.app/profile/impactology.bsky.social/post/3lbrfrverlc27

impactology.bsky.social•77 days ago

But then the challenge is to figure out how much design history should be covered to introduce that argument

https://bsky.app/profile/impactology.bsky.social/post/3lc3znmp6ds2c

plug103.bsky.social•77 days ago

Or the easy path is taken - that design didn’t start until the early 19C in Europe and can be applied universally ….

Histories in their contexts reapplied in contemporary contexts are harder to find.

impactology.bsky.social•77 days ago

>Histories in their contexts reapplied in contemporary contexts are harder to find.

That benefit applies to graphic design authors, they are lucky in that way. No need to talk much hot metal typesetting if the function of the book is to provide a 101.

Its harder for interaction design, ui

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