Erik Stolterman: Design Theory and Philosophy

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23 points·mbaytas··7 comments

Stolterman comes from an interesting generation of scandinavian systems designers who thought critically about interfaces very early on. I would recommend anyone to look at the work of Pelle Ehn as well – another very underrated figure.

Great interview of an important design thinker!

Inside baseball. Talking about music like dancing about architecture.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

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No, this is a high noice vs low signal kind of thing

OK, but please don't respond by lowering the signal/noise ratio of the thread. That just makes things worse. Instead, the way to react to that is to move on to something else that you find interesting. If you've looked at everything on the front page, the 'past' link in the top bar will take you to any popular threads that you've missed.

Author here.

I actually agree that a lot of academic scholarship (including Stolterman's and my own) is "inside baseball." This has many reasons, for example, it's easy to publish things that provide value to scholars, even if they aren't relevant to practical or commercial work.

This is actually why I started the Design Disciplin project, which this post is part of. It's meant to be design scholarship outside the establishment, hopefully improving the signal/noise ratio.

It doesn't happen in one day, and it's not for everyone. I keep iterating on the scope, topics, format, etc. Happy to hear any suggestions from the HN community as we move forward.

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