Comments on: How to learn design? http://tinabeans.com/blog/?p=92 learning to think clearly Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 By: snow http://tinabeans.com/blog/?p=92#comment-68 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:39:17 +0000 http://sugardew.com/blog/?p=92#comment-68 This seems to be an extension of the conversation we had last time. Art is a bit tricky. In engineering, it’s considered ‘good’ if you can meet all the requirements, but like you said, there usually isn’t the same set of guidelines in design.

From an engineer’s perspective, the goal of design seems to be inspiring a certain response, be it a sense of professionalism, security, awe, etc. The merit of the designer, then would be measured by the closeness of the response your audience has to your desired response. This is much more measurable than say their love of it. Just ask them the first thing they feel when they see it.

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