Comments on: Something Old About New Design Ideas

By: Best Of: Education | brianfrank.ca

Best Of: Education | brianfrank.ca — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:11:08 +0000

[...] but the deep affinities between early pragmatist philosophy and current design practices…I wrote about this before. Primarily, they both orient themselves around the concept of “experience” — not the kind you [...]

By: Education and Design | B Frank

Education and Design | B Frank — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:14:40 +0000

[...] but the deep affinities between early pragmatist philosophy and current design practices… I wrote about this before. Primarily, they both orient themselves around the concept of “experience” — not [...]

By: Brian Frank

Brian Frank — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:04:00 +0000

Thanks Steve. That’s an insightful way of putting it: “philosophy turns into action when the market demands it.” (And I have a feeling Dewey said something about that somewhere too…)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:46:00 +0000

Brian – Dewey certainly hits the nail on the head. I also think that philsophy turns into action when the market demands it. Experience design is hitting mainstream because corporations are starting to realize that they can charge premiums for an experience as opposed to their products or service alone.