Silvia's assignment one

What is a designer----chapter 1&2 reading notes Youwen Sun (Silvia)

1, The design of a traffic light system has an aesthetic component, but it would need a very special definition of aesthetics to embrace the many determining factors that must finally settle the design outcome. ---------chapter 1.Page 11

I think Industrial Design is a rational design process. Besides beauty, it needs us to consider lots of other determining factors such as technology, function, specific standard and so on.To my mind, a good Industrial Design work is not only have beautiful exterior appearance but also should have low costing, good feeling to people and perfect function.
That is why I love Industrial Design so much. Just like a game, it will give me some aesthetic latitude to creative and it also have lots of things to limit me, which look like some games' rules. I think it is very interesting and full of challenges. I like to do creative things and design esthetic products.

2,All designers, however specialized should know roughly what their colleagues do– and why; not only to fertilizer their own thinking, but also to make group practice effective, and for other reasons that will appear. --------chapter 1.Page 12

Now team work ability is very important to our designers. A big design project always needs a team to accomplish. Designers should know how to get along with other people. For one point, they can share their experiences which will good for a designer who have a lot of experience in different fields. In addition, they can just talk about the part they concerned recently, it will broaden their horizons and bring them new ideas. At last, as the article said to make group practice effective. And to me I want to be a senior designer so that I need more team work ability, beside this I also need organization ability. That is way I do the leader in my undergraduate school, and I will continue to enhance this ability .

3,By the word ‘student’, therefore, I mean those who still question what they are doing, and ask why. ---------chapter 1.Page 14

I just like this sentence, to be a student I should to ask myself what I am doing, and why I am doing this all the time. It will make me clearly, and don't do something useless to waste my time; get the knowledge as soon as I can. And to be a design student I think ask myself from time to time can make me thinking continually, so I can keep my mind clearly to find new ideas.

4,Not, obviously, a full description, and perhaps a somewhat negative one, but making the fact plain that a designer works through and for other people, and is concerned primarily with their problems rather than his own. ---------chapter 2.Page 19

To be a designer, to meet the clients requires are very important. We need to provide a professional service. To find their problems and make great efforts to solve their problems which is primarily for designers. We can not involve lots of ourselves emotions in the design process. Designer should consider other people's feeling than himself because this is design for other people not for himself.

5, He must be able to weigh up a problem, or an opportunity, in a dispassionate way, on it terms(as well as his own), and to select, arrange, and dispose his decisions accordingly.
---------chapter 2.Page 22

The ability of find problems and solve problems are very important to a designer. Designer should be sensitively to find the problems what is it and where is it, then make a deal ways to try to know how to solve it. During this process designers must to distinguish through lots of problems which one is the most important problem, and use the organize ability to arrange all the problems which need to solved. At least, keep a clearly mind to make a better design method to solve these problems.