Escalante
...or just random variety. He said about it:
“It is very methodical, as a process of deconstruction. What emerges is the discovery of what it is about that original radio that persists, in spite of the violent evolution.”
There was no other way to do it, to figure out what this radio should look like. It needed this enormous exploration.
Exploring a landscape takes time and it takes good pens and good shoes. This is one thing designers do very well. They are able to define a space without defining it. To explore it leaving open the possibility that the exploration will reveal previously unknown unknowns.
It’s interesting to contrast different activities. Engineers will set up problems, and then solve them by resolving constraints. Scientists will create a hypothesis, and then run good experiments. The design equivalent is the writing and answering of a brief.
Design thinking is a combination of rational and intuitive work; a combination of thought and making, so that the designer and his work exist in this kind of collaborative dialogue hiking across a terrane.
And I have a hunch, just a feeling based on experience and my work, that we’re at the beginning of some incredible vistas right now, in the worlds of the Web and design and of product, and just a little exploration will produce some wonderful views. So that’s where I’m want to go today.