elaboration of tweets

Academic subject unimportance and labeling. Knowledge, nt parochial. Depth AND spread. multidisciplinary is only a fluff term if you don't know the disciplines in depth...

I hit on this idea after I realise that all this talk about multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary is all fluff and that talk like that only make sense when people are able to get the different perspectives. I can imagine how that might look like for say, someone doing psycho-neurological research. That person would have to do BOTH psychology and neurology, and only after that, bringing those two perspectives into something more interesting.

Which brings me to the idea that the naming of fields of studies might be commutative, meaning AB is equal to BA. It wouldn't matter if its psycho-neurology or neuro-psychology, both are practically the same.

The unimportance of labels: move past ideology. Its not this ideo vs that ideo. Nowadays, it seems more like, this ideo is nice, combined with that component of another ideo... and then mash things up...

Here I am talking about labels and ideologies, and I'm not sure about all these philosophies, but I'm getting the sense that all of these labels fade away, and the thing that truly matters are the words that compose the labels in the first place, to examine details in every philosophies, and really understand what they mean. Its no longer liberalism vs conservatism, or or pragmatism vs idealism... all these -isms confuse people. And why should people get so stuck on their ideas? Yes, there are some fundamentals that should stay where they are, but after that, argument goes.
Design IS tech! You can't have good design without good technology (note: good, not BEST tech. very different things.)

People dont want tech! People want experience afforded by tech. Apple has been first mover, but MS catching up! Experience is design powered by technology! People DON'T want to know the technology behind their gadgets, they WANT the EXPERIENCE - and that can only be provided by DESIGN!

The two tweets are the result of realising that design itself is technology. Good design has to come from good tech, and there is no one without the other. You can have good tech with bad design though, but that just makes people turned off from the tech.

You have to differentiate between good tech and best tech. best tech refers to the technical advances that have made the performance exceptional. Good tech might refer to optimal performance, one that might not be performing exceptionally, but rather is compatible with the design and user requirements. Good tech also has this sense of optimising for the whole of the product, while best tech usually is about the sheer performance of something in a single indicator rather than throughout the entire product.

And of course, the aim of tech, in a very human-centred way, is to provide an experience. People want the experience of an easy-to-use touch screen, hence the iPhone. People might not necessarily want a device full of functions they don't use... So DESIGN is key!

Should have published this long ago...

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