Victor Margolin’s research while affiliated with University of Illinois Chicago and other places

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A Social Model of Design: Issues of Practice and Research
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October 2002

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Victor Margolin

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Sylvia Margolin

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... The development has always been deeply entangled with politics and hence ideologies of communification. In this context, the popular "form ever follows function" (Sullivan 1896, 408) mantra (originally meaning that 'good' form always emerges from and reflects functionality) often implies that design needs to achieve social functionality first and foremost, an imperative also upheld by specific strands of contemporary design theory such as social design (e.g., Margolin and Margolin 2002;Shea 2012). ...

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“Ease, comfort, and control”: Ideologies of design in software coding
A Social Model of Design: Issues of Practice and Research
  • Citing Article
  • October 2002

Design Issues