Study On Design Critique-based Knowledge Reuse Framework

Design critique,regarded as one of conveyers that transfer design knowledge,is a channel of creating and sharing design knowledge for designers.Design critique plays an essential role in both design practice and design education,is one of the important Learner-generated Contents.At present,the majority of research on design critique focus on its generative mechanism and process model,little research pay attention to the issue of design critique-based knowledge reuse.In Web2.0 era,the development of online creative communities and e-Learning platforms,provide massive data resource for the design critique-based knowledge reuse.In this context,it is valuable to study on how to acquire knowledge from design critiques and utilize it in design practice.To discuss the patterns of design knowledge reuse when designers are referring the critiques of design cases,this study conducts an observational experiment.By classifying design critiques,the experiment is organized according to the "design-referring-iteration" organization.Different patterns of knowledge reuse are concluded by analyzing the design conception outputs and interview data of subjects.The experiment results indicates,compared to the specific knowledge,designers tend to reuse the conceptual knowledge and actionable knowledge in design critiques.The radical modify strategy is associated to the reuse of conceptual knowledge.By highlighting the conceptual knowledge in design critiques,breakthrough design conception can be promoted.On the foundation of experiment conclusion,this study starts from three dimensions,which are process,function and technology,combined with scaffolding theory,comes up with the design critique-based knowledge reuse framework according to the process of "knowledge generation-knowledge presentation-knowledge reuse".Finally,this framework has been utilized in design practice.Based on the project of"pinwall" website,which is a design cases platform,this study redesigns the process of design critique-based knowledge creation and knowledge presentation,and outputs a series of interface design proposal.Constructing the design critique-based knowledge reuse framework,not only clarifies the features of each stage and the relationships between them,but also provides possible solutions to improve efficiency on knowledge reusing,is meaningful in both theoretical and practical perspective.