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Reinvigorating the Relationship Between the Designer and the Designed-For
Reinvigorating the Relationship Between the Designer and the Designed-For
As designers, we concern ourselves with figuring out what people want. In order to do that, we must first know the people. We do not work in a vacuum: We are called upon to create meaningful (or at the very least, effective) designs for those around us, and it is important to understand who those people are in a deeply human way. In my position as a designer, I find myself in the role of observer: creating and mediating images and experiences for people whom I have no personal connection to, and whose neighborhoods I have never visited.
This thesis is an exploration of our many times one-sided relationship to "the users," the people whom we design for. At the crux of my exploration is the passage of a designer (me) through the physical thresholds of aneighborhood and community and into an exploration of the intangible threshold between subject and object (the observer and the observed).
This thesis is an exploration of our many times one-sided relationship to "the users," the people whom we design for. At the crux of my exploration is the passage of a designer (me) through the physical thresholds of aneighborhood and community and into an exploration of the intangible threshold between subject and object (the observer and the observed).
