Communication Design

CATCHY PRESENTATIONS : DESIGN STUDENTS USING PECHA KUCHA

by Kaare Eriksen

Co-authors:
Christian Tollestrup & Nis Ovesen

Published in:
Design Education for Creativity and Business Innovation : The 13th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education

editors: Ahmed Kovacevic, William Ion, Chris McMahon, Lyndon Buck, Peter Hogarth

Design Society
Glasgow, UK
sep 2011

ISBN  978-1-904670-33-9

An important competence for designers is the ability to communicate and present ideas and proposals for customers,... more An important competence for designers is the ability to communicate and present ideas and proposals for customers, partners, investors and colleagues. The Pecha Kucha principle, developed by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, has become a widely used and easy format for the presentation of new concepts and ideas in many areas and avoiding “Death by Powerpoint”. This paper discusses the need and tools for making short presentations and describes the result from a business development project where engineering graduate students in architecture and design used the Pecha Kucha format to present their proposals at the final examination of their project work.
The authors conclude that Pecha Kucha is suitable for this type of presentations, although the flow of such presentations should be considered if used in connection with formal examination.

Semiotics and Design: a Quantitative Meta Analysis. Sarah Belkhamsa and Karen Brunel Lafargue Article reprint - Collection # 03 - summer 2011

by Sarah Belkhamsa

Article reprint - Collection # 03 - summer 2011

The aim of a quantitative meta analysis is to survey the evolution of publications belonging to a specific field of... more The aim of a quantitative meta analysis is to survey the evolution of publications belonging to a specific field of research over time (and occasionally, space). This approach allowed us to observe the studies’ geneses, define pioneers and chart the fluctuation of publications (diachronic approach), and therefore, research to date.

In this study, we have endeavoured to compile all relevant bibliographical references in order to measure, represent and compare scholarly interest. It encompasses both material artefacts, in particular those that are the result of industrial
production, as well as images graphically produced for mass distribution.

Though the core of our corpus is made up of publications stemming from structural and pragmatic semiotics, we also chose to include work from fields that call upon and apply semiotic approaches such as Information and Communication Sciences, Media Studies, Visual Studies, Material Culture Studies and Design Product Studies.

Reflective Practices and the Design Process in my Honours research

by Gavan Bright

When semiotics is considered within the iterative design process of health promotion, designers can engage the... more When semiotics is considered within the iterative design process of health promotion, designers can engage the audience and reduce stigmatising tropes by co-authorship with the audience.

Honours Research Methodology

by Gavan Bright

Methodology of my Honours Research

Methodology of my Honours Research Project Methodology of my Honours Research Project

Notas para uma normatização da nomenclatura tipográfica Notes for a standardization of typeface nomenclature

by Priscila Farias

Classificações tipográficas: sistemas de classificação cruzada Typeface classifications: crossed classification systems

by Priscila Farias

Improving design communication with traceable engineering design information

by Tino Stanković

Co-authored by: Mario Štorga, Dorian Marjanović, Nenad Bojčetić, Neven Pavković, Tino Stanković, Published in the Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, Stuttgart, Germany, 2010.

The existing practice of recording the outcome of the engineering design process is almost exclusively based upon... more The existing practice of recording the outcome of the engineering design process is almost exclusively based upon highly formalised model of the product, in the form of computer-aided engineering models, bills of materials, engineering change orders, etc. A consequence is that is difficult to retrace or audit the engineering reasoning that has taken place during the process of engineering design information (EDI) development without extensive work to assimilate and digest design documentation. It is the central proposition of this research that more useful traceability of EDI development may be obtained by formal description of the different EDI development dimensions.

Technocratic and design stances toward communication expertise: How GDSS facilitators understand their work

by Mark Aakhus

Aakhus, M. (2001). Technocratic and design stances toward communication expertise: How GDSS facilitators understand their work. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 29(4), 341-371.

This study investigates the shared, and often unstated, premises that frame the expert communication servicing of... more This study investigates the shared, and often unstated, premises that frame the expert communication servicing of meeting facilitators who implement group decision support systems (GDSS). Nine premises about facilitating communication were reconstructed from the way practitioners use the concept "process" to describe the expert servicing they perform. The premises reveal how the facilitators treat an analytic distinction between process and content to be a natural fact about communication. This factual presumption entails a nascent philosophy of practice--"process management"--that facilitators use to persuade clients, and practitioners, about the trustworthiness and credibility of their servicing. The ironic consequence of this philosophy is the denial of the very influence and expert judgment they exercise in their professional action. This is not only problematic for individual practitioners and consumers of facilitation services but for the development of facilitation practice itself. The implications of this analysis for facilitation practice and applied communication research are discussed in terms of a "design stance" toward communication expertise which is an alternative to the "technocratic stance" that currently frames practitioner, consumer, and research interests in GDSS facilitators.

Design, Comunicação e Mediação, Contribuição de Vilém Flusser para uma Sociologia do Design | Design, Communication and Mediation, Vilém Flusser Contribution Towards a Sociology of Design

by Sara Velez Estêvão

Dissertação de Mestrado, ISCTE.

Esta tese tem como problemática o design e as considerações teóricas que este fenómeno mereceu em Vilém Flusser, um... more Esta tese tem como problemática o design e as considerações teóricas que este fenómeno mereceu em Vilém Flusser, um destacado autor que associou a reflexão sobre cultura com a tecnologia, o design e a comunicação. Nos textos de Flusser, a abordagem ao problema do mundo cultural, mais especificamente dos objectos técnicos, da comunicação humana, das imagens técnicas e, a estes associado, do design, revela a função dialógica destes em constante confronto com a sua condição de objecto. O design, enquanto forma cultural de presença ubíqua na comunicação contemporânea assenta em objectos técnicos, assume características das imagens técnicas definidas por Flusser e, como tal, considera-se, depara-se ontologicamente com questões idênticas às levantadas por Flusser nos seus textos.

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The present dissertation has as main problem, design and the theoretical concepts of Vilém Flusser on this phenomenon. Flusser, a distinguished author, connected the thougt on culture with design and communication. In his work, the approach to the cultural world problem - more specifically of the technical objects, human communication, technical images and the design associated to these – reveals their dialogic function, in permanent confrontation with their condition as objects. Design, being a cultural form ubiquitous in contemporary communication, resides in technical objects, assumes characteristics of the technical images defined by Flusser and, as such, in our view, faces ontological questions identical to the ones raised by Flusser in his texts.

Motion Gestalt for Screen Design: Applied Theory of Grouping Principles for Visual Motion Integrity

by Jinsook Kim

Dissertation 2007

http://www.motiongestalt.com http://www.motiongestalt.com

Communication design and theories of learning

by Brad Mehlenbacher

Mehlenbacher, B. (2008). Communication design and theories of learning. SIGDOC’08: The 26th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication Proceedings. Lisbon, Portugal: ACM, 139-146.

This paper provides a brief overview of the ill-structured information spaces that communication designers create and... more This paper provides a brief overview of the ill-structured information spaces that communication designers create and inhabit, highlighting the need for a research-based understanding of learning. A sociocognitive approach to learning that benefits from the strengths of cognitive and social perspectives is described. As a complex learning activity, communication design and use demand creative, multidisciplinary approaches to data collection, analysis, and interpretation.

Design that keeps designing: designing for participation

by Yoko Akama

Co-authored with Neal Haslem, paper presented at ACUADS conference, Queensland College of Art Griffith University Brisbane, Australia, Sept 30 – Oct 2, 2009

What role does participation take when engaging the public in communication design projects? What considerations and... more What role does participation take when engaging the public in communication design projects? What considerations and capacities in the communication design process and practice are required to enable participation? These questions are considered in this paper through critically reflecting on a project entitled Fashion City, which explored engaging the public as co-author of the communication content. The unexpected and confronting outcomes of the project provided valuable insights into designing for participation. The paper summarises three of the key lessons learned during the project that revolved around issues of releasing control and de-centralising the designer and the outcome of design. Following the understandings arising from the project, a ‘scaffold’ model is proposed. This scaffold can act as a framework that respects the individual’s agency and their participation as well as their rights to choose to ignore or interact, engage or disengage in a ‘conversation’ initiated through design. These scaffolds may be risky and unconventional to normative commercial processes, however, it is argued that they can lead to generative situations of uncertainty and indeterminacy to occur, enabling the discovery of new concepts, knowledge and practices in communication design.

Packaging Design and Communication Accessibility. A Study of Access Design

by Erik Ciravegna

Co-authored with prof. Valeria Bucchetti.
Published in the proceedings of the "Include 2011" conference.

The paper outlines, from the communication design perspective, the user-centred approach taken to address packaging... more The paper outlines, from the communication design perspective, the user-centred approach taken to address packaging design area and explores the potentialities of the project of information accessibility to deliver innovation from the user’s perspective. Packaging is analysed as a ‘device for access’, supporting the relations between product and user and ensuring the correct transfer of information conveyed. Communication design enhances, in this sense, its function of ‘facilitator’, enabling the access to contents (a set of data or an object) to different user-groups. In this view, a research study on the communication access to the product and its use (information for interaction) is presented. This study analysed, in particular, the modalities through which packages allow the information transfer and explored the factors determining the communication access in relation to packaging informative and prescriptive functions, in order to highlight the criticalities, determine some reference parameters and develop, lastly, some guidelines for designers and enterprises. Besides the graphical dimension, the research work also considered the qualities provided by the sensory modalities of sight and touch to facilitate the access to information and to the product.

Communication Design for Sustainable Livelihoods in the Disabled Community in Thailand

by Siriporn Peters

This is the abstract for the Sustainable Development to Save the Earth conference. It was held on April 7-9th, 2009 at Millennium Hilton Bangkok Hotel, Thailand.

This research builds on my previous research, where I have developed products with people with physical disabilities... more This research builds on my previous research, where I have developed products with people with physical disabilities in the central region of Thailand. This project provided me the great opportunities to work side by side with the disabled groups. They have different disabilities and skills. As a result, there were various levels of success. However, this was not the enabling solution because the researcher played the role of designer and provided the solutions for them. To create enabling solutions for these disabled groups, both researchers and the disabled people have to change their way of thinking and behaving. This requires a transition whereby the designer researcher is no longer the one who provides solutions. The disabled people are no longer the recipients of someone’s solutions, which have been created for them. They must learn to create their own solutions based on their skills and capabilities through participatory and collaborative networks. People who have had a disability since birth or early childhood have often been denied formal education or have lived in social isolation. As a result, they have poorly developed social skills and communication skills. Many of them suffer from lack of self-esteem. Therefore, the objective of this research was to investigate the potential role and contribution of communication and communication design in enabling the sustainability of people with disabilities in the Phrapradaeng community in Samutprakran province, Thailand. The methodology of this research was Participatory Action Research (PAR) by using a sustainable livelihoods framework. The disabled people had the active role in the research. They analyzed their own situation, identified their problems, set their goals and activities for developing their capabilities for sustainable livelihoods. The finding shows that communication and communication design have the important role through out the research process because they enabled the disabled people who are have literacy difficulties and lack of communication skills to share their view and develop their own capabilities for sustainable livelihoods through verbal and visual communication.

Corlu M., Ozcan O. “The Potential of Dyslexic Individuals in Communication Design Education “, Behavioral Neurology, IOS Press, NL, February 2008, Vol:18, Number:4 pp. 217‐223

by Oguzhan Ozcan

If dyslexic individuals have the ability to express themselves in different ways, particularly in the field of modern... more If dyslexic individuals have the ability to express themselves in different ways, particularly in the field of modern graphic design, would they be a favoured group in creating the extraordinary and outstanding ideas that are required in communication design? The study group consisted of 20 primary school dyslexics between ages of 7–12 and 20 non-dyslexics serving as a control group. A jury with four specialists evaluated the drawings gathered from the 40 participants. Even though we might not say surely that the dyslexics are the best possible candidates for communication design education, based on the statistical results we have concluded that they should be among the potential candidates for both general communication design education and for more specific minor study areas such as icon design.

Corlu M., Ozcan O. “The Meaning of Dyslexics’ Drawings in Communication Design“, Dyslexia, John Willey & Sons, Ltd., 2009, Vol:15, Issue 2, pp.147‐15

by Oguzhan Ozcan

Esin S., Ozcan O. “From Post Office to Public Communication Point: A study on the Spatial Transformation of Public Buildings, Due to Decreasing Functionality with to Recent Developments in Information Technologies”, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Locke Science Publishing USA, 2010, Vol:27, No:2, pp.163-180

by Oguzhan Ozcan

The classical structure of postal services and post offices, which was fully established in the 17th century, is... more The classical structure of postal services and post offices, which was fully established in the 17th century, is losing its value and importance because of the developments in information technology; however, these physical public spaces must be sustained to support national strategies. Using Public Communication Point (PCP) criteria, it is possible to determine which post offices with decreasing functionality must be reserved. Using the outcomes of the analysis of the criteria, we can determine communicational demands of the regions and develop spatial organizations for each post office. This paper addresses the research regarding this idea by examining 99 post offices, in 14 different groups, in Istanbul.

Recognizing Risk-of-Failure In Communication Design Projects.

by Joyce Yee

2009. Visible Language, Special Issue on Design Failures. Volume 43.2/3. Co authored with Matthew Lievesley and Louise Taylor

The pace of commercial graphic design practice presents very few opportunities to conduct user research after a... more The pace of commercial graphic design practice presents very few opportunities to conduct user research after a project’s launch. This makes the design team’s ability to anticipate and address risks during the design development phase even more important, recognized in the astute observation from Tim Brown, CEO of leading international design group IDEO, that sometimes you must “fail early to succeed early.”This paper presents the methods and strategies used by the Centre for Design Research’s (CfDR) creative team to mitigate risk during three communication design case-study projects. Elements of failure are identified in each of the three cases and presented, with discussion of where and why they occurred,  and the possible approaches for reducing the risk of such problems re-occurring. To provide structure  to the discussion, the paper frames each contributory issue as either a usability, communication or technical failing.

Design E Sensorialità

by Dina Riccò

Educating Design Process Educators as a Means to Educate Ethically Minded Designers

by Michael Gibson

Published in the online proceedings of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) design educators' conference "Response_ability" in May of 2010.

This paper was originally presented at a design education conference titled “Response_ability: Ethics and... more This paper was originally presented at a design education conference titled “Response_ability: Ethics and Sustainability in Design Education” that was facilitated by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) at Bowling Green State University in May of 2010. The principle argument contends that one of the most crucial objectives in contemporary university-level communication design programs should be to educate design students to become very effective “design process educators.” This doesn’t mean that all of these students need to be educated to become professional design educators—it implies that they need to be confronted with projects that challenge them to teach themselves and a wide variety of people from outside design about how design processes can and do affect real economic, social, political and technological change in given environments.

It also implies that these students should be immersed in learning situations that challenge them to articulate the “why” of what their design intentions much more than the “how” or even the “what.” It encourages designing that requires empathy-building to function as a primary element of its ethical foundation, and it challenges students to design the processes that guide their decision-making so that they can begin to question answers rather than answer questions.