RELATED TERMS: Actantiality; User; User-Centred and User-Driven Design Practices What is at stake in this post is whether it is valuable to explore a re-articulation of user-centred design and the notion of affordance through certain concepts borrowed from psychoanalysis. This may enable a conception of how designs intervene in the psycho-drama of the subject inContinue reading “Lack, Loss and User-Centred Design Practices”
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Imaginary
RELATED TERMS: Storyworld; Iconic Designs, Critical Designs The imaginary mediates between abstract conception and material realisation. The storyworld, for example, takes place in the imaginary. In design practices, the imaginary does not carry a negative connotation in the sense of being a set of deceptive illusions mystifying or obscuring a real. As Adams and SmithContinue reading “Imaginary”
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