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Design

Site Name

Design

Description

Used for asking questions that relate to any disciplines in design (both digital and physical) which require applying basic design principles that help to create a solution to a problem based on certain requirements or constraints

Topics

Topics covered would include:

  • Industrial design for mass production and manufacturing
  • UX design for software applications and digital platforms
  • Graphic and visual design for print and digital media
  • Built-environment design for interface between people and the natural environment

Exclusions

These topics or types of posts would be out of scope:

  • Software architecture or physical device design (which is more specialized)
  • Game systems/mechanics design (which should have its own site)

Special Features

This community should have categories used to group similar contents, a flair system similar to Reddit to help identify users, bounty or reward systems like StackOverflow, considerations about use of AI technology

Overlaps

I think that this community can be leveraged to use the collective design mindset to help solve problems that we see which could use an ethical and well-considered design solution, or even just to help bounce ideas by thinking outside the box.

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"Design" is way too broad. (5 comments)
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"Design" is way too broad.
Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 5 months ago

"Design" can mean many things, the total of which is way too broad for a site here. It can apply to designing a piece of electronics, to a car, to software, or anything else an engineer does. It can also be used in an artistic sense of creating visual patterns, decorations, apparel, clothing, etc. "Design" is too ambiguous of a word to use in the title, at least stand-alone. "Artistic design" would be more narrow, for example.

Antares‭ wrote 5 months ago

I would also see overlapping issues with Arts&Crafts. But what is mentioned here in Design could also be "CAD" or "Graphics Design" (mentioned in the main page here). Arts&Crafts stated that they also would cover UI/UX. Maybe this has to be transfered to this category then.

Lundin‭ wrote 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago

I think it might be rather locale-specific. Over here in Sweden/northern Europe, graphic designer and industrial designer etc are titles and even degrees for those who do the artistic parts of whatever the item might be, including company brands, product brands etc. Someone who works with mechanics or electronics etc wouldn't call themselves a designer but developer, engineer (diplomated title in many countries) or freely translated to Swenglish "constructor" - a person who explicitly works with new product development. So for example if I want to start the project of making a new toothbrush product, an industrial designer would take care of the product brand and aesthetics, working together with a mechanical engineer specializing in plastics. Then you might hire a marketing agency which has a graphical designer taking care of packaging, brochures and commercials for the toothbrush.

Lundin‭ Here in the USA, graphic designer and industrial designer mean the same thing as you describe. However, we also say that an engineer "designs" things. For example, I'm an elelctrical engineer, and it would be perfectly normal to say my job is to design circuits and circuit boards. In that case, "design" refers to more of a technical than artistic activity.

Either way, it seems apparent that just "design" alone is too broad or ambiguous to be used in the title of a site here without significant qualification.

Lundin‭ wrote about 24 hours ago

Maybe Graphical Design would be less ambiguous?