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Lee, Chae Ho – Visible Language, 2010
Nakheel, a Dubai World Company has created the world's largest themed mall based on the narrative of Ibn Battuta, a 14th century Muslim explorer whose world travels are well documented. The Ibn Battuta Mall is located in the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and utilizes a communication strategy called edutainment: a neologistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Communication Strategies, Arabs
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Storkerson, Peter – Visible Language, 2010
The following paper assesses the roles played by semiotics in graphic design and in graphic design education, which both reflects and shapes practice. It identifies a series of factors; graphic design education methods and culture; semiotic theories themselves and their application to graphic design; the two wings of Peircian semiotics and…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Role, Graphic Arts, Design
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Blair-Early, Adream – Visible Language, 2010
University art and design programs are branching out and creating cross-disciplinary programs and research centers that connect design students and faculty across various disciplines such as business, engineering, architecture, information studies, health sciences and education. A human-centered, problem-based approach to design research looks to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Design, Interdisciplinary Approach, Action Research
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Poggenpohl, Sharon; Winkler, Dietmar R. – Visible Language, 2010
In closing, the guest editors of this "Visible Language" special series reflect on the failures identified in the various papers and interpret what this suggests for design education and research in the context of changing practice. The failures cited in this series point out the fractures in our understanding and practices from user-centered,…
Descriptors: Design, Instruction, Ethics, Semiotics
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van der Waarde, Karel – Visible Language, 2010
An area of visual communication that might be classified as a "design failure" is the visual presentation of information about "prescription-only medicines" for patients. This information is provided on packaging, leaflets, brochures, labels and websites. The practical issue is that there are problems in convincing patients to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphic Arts, Design, Patients
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Winkler, Dietmar R. – Visible Language, 2009
There is a closed cycle of design education that replicates the most common design practice--and feeds into that practice that seeks awards based on incremental change supported by professional organizations and trade journals--that feeds back to education forms for imitation. This is the educational failure this paper cites. It takes to task the…
Descriptors: Schools, Educational Change, Design, Information Technology
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Moldenhauer, Judith A. – Visible Language, 2010
The concept and use of the synchronous and asynchronous forms of virtual conferencing is central to the experience of global design education. Easy and ready access to people and information worldwide is at the heart of a paradigm shift in design practice and education, defined by collaboration and digital technology. The dream of smooth, global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Yee, Joyce; Lievesley, Matthew; Taylor, Louise – Visible Language, 2009
The pace of commercial graphic design practice presents very few opportunities to conduct user research after a project's launch. This makes the design team's ability to anticipate and address risks during the design development phase even more important, recognized in the astute observation from Tim Brown, CEO of leading international design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphic Arts, Failure, Risk Management
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Sivasankaran, Vijay K.; Owen, Charles L. – Visible Language, 1992
Defines transposition operations (changing the way the display of the model proceeds) in diagrams within computer graphics. Describes transpositions that are spatial (moving the point of view or the point viewed), procedural (changing the flow of time), or organizational (arranging multiple simultaneous views and interjecting auxiliary measuring…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Computer Graphics, Computer Simulation, Diagrams
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Ruecker, Stan; Given, Lisa M.; Sadler, Elizabeth; Ruskin, Andrea; Simpson, Heather – Visible Language, 2007
This paper examines inclusive design delivery through interface design, with a particular focus on access to healthcare resources for seniors. The goal of the project was to examine how seniors are able to access drug information using two different online systems. In the existing retrieval system, pills are identified using a standard search…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Patients, Drug Use, Identification
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Swanson, Eric; Sabady, Stacie; Yin, Chris – Visible Language, 2006
Design education encompasses various teaching strategies with classes typically evaluated by students at the end of the term. This evaluation is often perfunctory; in contrast, the observational research presented in this paper examines a variety of design classes as they are taught, then analyzes the observations through three perspectives:…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Class Activities, Instructional Improvement, Design
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Zender, Mike; Crutcher, Keith A. – Visible Language, 2007
The accelerating rate of data generation and resulting publications are taxing the ability of scientific investigators to stay current with the emerging literature. This problem, acute in science, is not uncommon in other areas. New approaches to managing this explosion of information are needed. While it is only possible to read one paper or…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Pathology, Scientific Concepts, Research Methodology