Thought about semantics

Most of the cognition is indicated by people's actions within the context. That is called the meaning people made it constantly. Krippendorff[1] maintains the semantic would not be recognized without the setting, he got to sort out the appropriate form from the four element of context – operational context, sociolinguistic context, context of genesis and ecological context. Sound like you need get more formulation to your design thinking, not just one. It was also that if a form is given by the knowledge of linguistic, you probably work out very effectively in product.

For the outward appearance being known, however, I also take what people said ‘pulled it loose’. It's meant that mind always come with actions, so leading the function gets a lot of ways by your activity which could be used to what we make known to the outside world. That point prefers to make user interface much 'opening' or 'embodied'. Actually, I don’t even care of what the meaning in form is conveyed in precise, but how rich perception people makes with a product.

update at... 05/01/11


Reference:
[1] Krippendorff, K., 1995, “One the essential contexts of artifacts or on the proposition that “design is making sense (of things)””, in V. Margolin and R. Buchanan (eds.), The idea of design: A Design Issues, MIT Press, pp.156-184.