Through this last year of going through dblogs, i've found a remarkable difference in the language that is used to communicate ideas.. If you read comments you'll often come across abduction, lateral thinking, design synthesis, extrapolation, insights... The fact that similar terms are used to describe a design in China, Norway, Canada, USA, UK makes it startlingly apparent that we indeed have an accepted way of communicating that does transcend all the differences in spoken language!
When you view this talk by Tim brown, you'll understand this much better... or understand how far behind you are in catching up with this new language :)
Even though I love the fact that like maths, design too will become (actually, IS to some extent) a subject that one studies through school days.. I'm afraid that it will become a discipline as strict as maths which would just contain this wonderful process of creation into the hands of a certain few, the designers.. Which is just a typical logical course of evolution of any subject.. Isn't that ironic?
Re-viewing this talk, one begins to wonder though.. Would it have been possible to develop & enhance an inherent process of developing a new subject/language so easily had it not been for the technologies that connect us all?
