Hi! I wrote a little (uh, long) answer on Quora about why I think design is a useful pursuit from the perspective of a philosopher, and why philosophy is useful from the perspective of a designer.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-do-web-design-as-a-philosopher/answer/Devin-Halladay?share=2af6c51d&srid=hTmST …
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Replying to @theflowingsky @devinhalladay
high-level: philosophy teaches you how to ask a good question (to be clear about the problem you're trying to solve) low-level: personally I've gotten a lot of mileage out of embodied cognition's approach to understanding the system of user and workpiece
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Replying to @allgebrah @devinhalladay
specifically, embodied cognition tells you *why* you need constant force-like feedback for *which* problems, and then you get ideas about what other problems you can recast as feedback problems
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whoa! damn this is really great. i hadn’t heard of embodied cognition before
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these two gave me most of the ideas https://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.de/ - you don't really need to read the whole blog, just get familiar with one or two of the experiments featured there
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