Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Trajectory review

Moving up the trajectory creates more vision, more social contribution and commitment, different design issues, more continuity of use (mulitple use), and more risk of failure; and expands design terms and thinking.

Recommended reading: Baldwin and Clark, Design rules: The Power of Modularity

Recommended reading: Mythical Man Month (Article)

Modularity is almost never used in instructional design. Instructional design is in something like a back water. It has stopped progressing. Modularity could be a way to move forward.

Barriers for modularity include existing theories are deeply rooted in practice.

Ergonomics was a study of interfaces by fitting the human to the machine and make the interface liveable.

Products, Goods, and Interfaces can be used by one person alone. The next step and above needs more than one person.

Project design focusses on multi-user contribution in solving a problem or achieving a goal.

Personal thought: Discourse is sharing meaningfulness. How do you design that?

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