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Design is not Art

It is comforting to hear from a distinguished designer that "design is not art" , something that Harold Nelson and I have argued in our book "The Design Way". Unfortunately there is a common misunderstanding that design is close to art or a type of art. Milton Glaser makes the clear statement that this is not the case in a brief article . I wish more people would take this position, it would make a huge difference in how we think about design and how it would be positioned and organized into a university structure as well as a company structure.

Video of my RSD5 Keynote "Interactivity Fields and Systems"

I just found a Vimeo  video of my recent Keynote address at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design 5 conference in Toronto in October 2016. The topic was "Interactivity Fields and Systems"

Book sent to publisher!

So, today my colleague Lars-Erik Janlert and I sent our final manuscript to the MIT Press publisher. The book is titled " Things That Keep Us Busy--the elements of interaction ". The chapter in the book look like this: 1 The things that keep us busy 2 Thought styles and Use paradigms 3 An approach to interactivity 4 Interaction 5 Complexity 6 Control 7 The character of things 8 Expressions and impressions 9 Faceless interaction 10 Taking measures 11 Full speed ahead I am not sure when it will be published, but I am sure it will take a while.