Effective Communication Design
Design methods for meaning discovery: a patient-oriented health research case study
David Craib, Lorenzo Imbesi
Carleton University, Sapienza University
david@parable.ca
Keywords: design tools, meaning creation, semiotic square, communication design
Abstract
Communication designers encode messages into verbo-visual presentations to be decoded later by message receivers. This demands that designers choose what meanings to encode. Various tools enabling the exploration and understanding of meaning have been developed through the disciplines of psychology and semiotics, but generally have been used as meaning-analysis tools to analyse texts, and not primarily for meaning creation. Do tools exist to empower a designer to determine the meaning of a message they are tasked to create? Are these tools scalable, able to be used iteratively, and are they efficient? We explore various meaning-analysis tools and apply one of these tools to create meaning, within a real-world design project, within a limited timeframe, for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
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Cite this paper: Craib, D., Imbesi, L. (2016). Design methods for meaning discovery: a patient-oriented health research case study. Proceedings of DRS 2016, Design Research Society 50th Anniversary Conference. Brighton, UK, 27–30 June 2016.
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