Slides from a presentation I got to give at the UX Strategy Forum conference in Tokyo

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2. Photo from Library of Congress Detroit Publishing Collection, Call Number LC-D4-3320

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CLIENT TEAM

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DESIGNER

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9. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

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12. D D D D
DISCOVER DESIGN DEVELOP DEPLOY

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D D D
DISCOVER DESIGN DEVELOP DEPLOY
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14. Image Credit: Embassy Pictures, © 1984

15. INSTEAD OF THE TRUTH
THE CLASSIC, PERVASIVE SEDUCTION TO DESIGNERS
HAS BEEN TO FIND A SOLUTION

17. Photograph of Louis Kahn from Louis Kahn – The Power of Architecture exhibition at the Design Museum in London, UK 2014
A man should not take the program
and simply give it to the client
as though he were filling
a doctor's prescription.
1968

18. PRESCRIPTION

19. PROGRAM

21. BACKWARD
FROM THE
PROBLEM
Sketches by Louis I Kahn from Aalto, LeCorbusier, Kahn and Soleri (1964)

24. WHAT
BEFORE
HOW
Photograph from the collection of Richard Saul Wurman

26. United States Of America by Joao Santos from the Noun Project

27. COINCIDENTALLY…
Client A
12 months
Site-Wide Redesign
Broad Re-imagining
12 months
Client B
Responsive “Site Update”
Strategic Repositioning

28. COINCIDENTALLY…
2 months
16% of original budget
3 months
23% of original budget
Client A Client B
Site-Wide Redesign
Broad Re-imagining
Responsive “Site Update”
Strategic Repositioning

29. Copyright Embassy Pictures 1984

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Truth-seeking as
prerequisite to
problem solving

31. @lukew

32. STRUCTURAL DESIGN
VOCABULARY
“comparable clusters of
concepts about a design option”
- Daniel O’Neil

33. GENERAL
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
VOCABULARIES
• Venturi & Scott Brown
• Hobbs

34. Venturi +
Scott Brown

35. 1972
From Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. Copyright MIT Press, 1972

36. 1959
Photograph of Michigan State Medical Society Building -- Minoru Yamasaki 1959 by Dan Klyn

37. 1959
Drawing of Michigan State Medical Society Building -- Minoru Yamasaki 1959 by Michael Nÿkamp
http://mkn-design.com

38. DUCK
Integral Ornament Innovative Revolutionary Original Pretty All Around
Advanced Technology Looks Expensive “Interesting” Heroic

40. LEARNING FROM DUCKS
• Amplifies Meaning
• Can Become a Joke When Shrunk

41. 1972
From Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. Copyright MIT Press, 1972

42. 1950*
Photograph by Bruce Walker FAIA, * precise date of project is unknown.

43. Applied Ornament
Evocative
Evolutionary
Ordinary
Conventional
Pretty In Front
Inconsistent
Looks Cheap
“Boring”
Expedient
DECORATED SHED

46. LEARNING FROM SHEDS
• Less Risky than Ducks
• Increased Dependence on
Excellence in Implementation
and Maintenance

47. Ephemera from Pruitt Igoe development by Flickr user Michael Allen.
1955

48. Hobbs

49. From The Design Behind The Design Behind The Design, by Jason Hobbs 2014

50. From The Design Behind The Design Behind The Design, by Jason Hobbs 2014
A discussion about how these two things relate.

51. From The Design Behind The Design Behind The Design, by Jason Hobbs 2014
The one thing is more important, or there’s more of one thing, in relation to the other thing.

52. From The Design Behind The Design Behind The Design, by Jason Hobbs 2014
The one is a sub-set of the other, and is of central importance to the latter.

53. From The Design Behind The Design Behind The Design, by Jason Hobbs 2014
The one is a sub-set of the other but is not core, just a part.

54. From Star Wars, by George Lucas 1977
That’s no moon…

55. From The Design Behind The Design Behind The Design, by Jason Hobbs 2014
The two things are related however the smaller exists or has presence beyond the larger.

56. From The Design Behind The Design Behind The Design, by Jason Hobbs 2014
The two things are related, the smaller is not a part of the larger, exists or has presence be-
Yond the larger and is further away in relevance or importance to the conversation.

57. From The Design Behind The Design Behind The Design, by Jason Hobbs 2014
The two things are not directly related but are part of the same discussion.

58. LEARNING FROM HOBBS
• Spatial Grammar
• Geometric Primitives

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60. CONTEXTUAL
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
VOCABULARY
• Balcony
• Silos

61. balcony

63. silos

68. ありがとう
@undrstndng
http://understandinggroup.com