Blog 6

• In an interconnected world, what are the limitations of design when cultural, political, economic biological and environmental systems are increasingly open?

When reading the article it seemed like it was all about listening to the people ad somehow converting their needs with our design. Though it mostly talks about how difficult that really is and designers usually will ignore the people if it means cutting out a big part of their personal style or their stamp as designers. Another way is how to put our stamp of our work when everything is so increasingly limited by our customers wants and other people's designs around us, we have to advertise to people what we do and how we do it so that they will want us in the future while not seeming to familiar to another designer. He talks about how people will not read large lump sums of text anymore, so we the designers have to figure out how to deliver the information we need to deliver in a smaller bundle while still getting out what we need. As the people become more busy and less focused on design and more on just getting what they need and out, we need to think around the customers.



• Does new media present the “new” direction for design? Describe how new media does or does not present “new “ directions in design and provide an examples (links or screen grabs) to support your assertion.

Certainly new media is a good representation for where design is at right now, people are always thinking of new things and new places for designers to work at or on. I think just like computers are seemingly out of date in a few years, so is a design for certain areas. Every semester of school seems to bring out a new version of design from younger people, it's all you can do to keep up with the changes in media. There is always a newer version of something to design for, like right now everything is all about Green Design and designing everything over again to be more green, all the technology is redesigning and so must we the designers.


• Is it time for designers to reintegrate disparate fields in order to consider new directions in design? Give examples (with links or screen grabs) of some new ways that design might be considered. These do not have to be existing ways, just ways that might yield some new and interesting results.

I think as designers we are always having to reinvent ourselves and our medium so this is a definite yes. The question for everyone will be what is next and how can we change things that have already been done, sure we have tons of new applications coming out to create things we never have before. I think in a way though we are always coping things and simply re-doing everything that has already been done, all we do is add a very minor thing that maybe these past people couldn't do, but after taking art history classes throughout the years you find yourself always relating back to something else.



• What is the next “big thing in design”? Why do you think so and based on what criteria? Provide examples to support your assertion.

I think the next big thing in design is going to be more based on advertising than anything else, with the inventions of DVR's and TiVo things, more and more people are able to avoid advertisements. So designers will now be forced to figure out ways to get people's attention. Another adjustments I think designers will be forced to make is the move from all still and non-static design to very active, everything is being replaced with digital things, inventions of digital paper where ads could be possibly integrated and switches over to electronic billboards(Which we have recently had one added at Colorado and I-25 if you look for it!) instead of paper, where things will be forced to always be moving to keep the viewers attention. We are always searching for more and more ways to reduce how much paper we use and the switch over to everything digital is just something I see that is bound to happen, so designers will need to think of everything as moving and how it can be displayed properly or where for that matter.