Collaborations and Design Development of Local Craft Products: Service Design for Creative Craft Community

Development of Interactive Multimedia Courseware (e-craft) for Craft Education

The e-CRAFT is specially designed for songket weaving course taught to certificate and diploma students from Fakulti Seni Kraf Tenunan in their first year study at Institut Kraf Negara, Malaysia (National Craft Institute). The courseware was developed in a web-based environment and overall development process was based on the Dick and Carey's process model and conceptual Instructional Design fr...

Interface Design: More Craft than Science?

Interface design can overwhelm the effects of better or worse database engines. Progressively more systems use graphical interfaces but as with any new technologically–driven medium it takes time for notions of ‘good’ design to form and disseminate. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the nascent field of 3D interfaces where — much as in the days of font overkill which followed the introductio...

Integrated Patrol Craft Design LCDR ( s )

From Craft to Science: Rules for Software Design -- Part II

Developing large software systems is notoriously difficult and unpredictable. Software projects are often canceled, finish late and over budget, or yield lowquality results -setting software engineering apart from established engineering disciplines. While puzzling at first glance, the shortcomings of software "engineering" are easily explained by the fact that software development is a craft a...

Design and Craft Thinking Analysed as Embodied Cognition

Through the concept of design thinking the act of designing is presented as an intellectual activity, and the act of planning the design is elevated over the making process. However, the importance of materiality and the embodied sense-making that occurs in this context should not be forgotten. In this study, embodied cognition in design and craft practices was investigated through three case s...