This wiki was created as a “whiteboard discussion” about the contemporary meaning and application of the term “Design”. Our hope is that this initial discussion can be used to jump-start a panel discussion to be held at the upcoming ACM-SIGCHI Conference (Association for Computing Machinery - Special Interest Group in Computer Human Interaction).

The conference will be held at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California from 28 April - 3 May, 2007. This year the conference’s subtitle; “Reach Beyond”, encourages us to move beyond our comfortable domains and perspectives. Please see the conference website for more information and to register for attending the conference and our session.

If you’ve read this far, then you are at least intrigued... No? Perhaps you’re just seething at the audacity of such a question as; “who killed design?”. Perhaps you think that no one killed design. You might say; “Design is doing great. Just look at the IPod!!!”; acknowledge your complicity like dear Philippe. Or maybe you think that WE killed design by asking. All of these are perfect points of view for this discussion. The only wrong point of view, in our opinion, is the one not offered.

Please sign-up and share your own thoughts, references, and ideas with us about this topic!

start by contributing to the initial dialogue [blog format] and questions [wiki format]

Offline discussions we have been having with the panelists

Dialogue – note: new entries at the top