In Donald Norman's Article The Future of Design, he mainly discusses The Future development direction of Design. This article focuses on the possible future development of design。
Design began as a craft that primarily focused on creating beautiful objects and became a powerful force in industry. Formerly design was used as a skilled craft to create useful and beautiful objects. At the same time, in the field of industrial design, design can help industries produce commercial products.
Design is the interface between technology and people, but very few people study both at the time of design. The result was many delightful objects that we use today in our homes, schools and workplaces. Yet natural resources are being depleted, the environment is suffering from severe and unhealthy pollution in many parts of the world, and social unrest affects us all. Even the climate is changing, affecting living conditions around the world. Traditional craft education is not enough to solve these problems.
Traditional craft-based designs do not require formal evidence: evidence of their effort is visible to all who look at it. The designer’s intuition is no longer sufficient: design must be done through technical knowledge and an awareness of the limitations and capabilities of the average person, who is expected to master the device.
Human-centered design is perhaps the most important of these new developments. This is a process need to have a thorough understanding of people. Human-oriented design, the purpose of the final product is to improve the quality of life of users. Human-centered design allows us to use a systematic approach to discover the real needs of people and society, to develop proposed solutions, test and refine them. Continue to follow the traditional skills and crafts designers can work for them and they made good students feel proud, but this kind of design will represent the past.