Design
6 posts tagged with “Design”
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Owning the Problem Space: Lessons for Practice
Across this series I have developed an argument in three parts: that planning and design are fundamentally different activities, distinguished by whether the problem space within which work proceeds...
The Grammar of Graphics: Wilkinson's Contribution
The previous post contrasted product management and service design representations, finding that neither tradition has explicit state models, formal transition specifications, or generative grammars;...
Planning vs Design
The previous post presented planning as a computational problem: navigation within a state space. The key insight was that planning presupposes a domain - objects, predicates, actions, goals - and...
What is a State Space?
The previous post showed how concepts can be represented geometrically - as regions in multi-dimensional vector spaces where similarity is distance. This geometric formalism is powerful: it provides...
Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Meaning
The previous post surveyed competing frameworks for representing knowledge - distributed cognition, activity theory, social representations, prototype theory - and argued that Gärdenfors's conceptual...
What I Learned From a PhD Module in Machine Learning
Three things converged during my time at SCÖ, a Swedish coordination association for vocational rehabilitation, that set the direction for this series.