The notion that a designer is a visual problem solver is not hard to dispute, but what if being a media designer is about asking questions and not just solving specific problems? The role is switched and the designer becomes the question and problem maker and not just the solver. The media designer is then responsible for answering their own questions. The ownership of the ideas and the possible solutions are then responsible to the designer. I see the media designer’s role as a methodology of making and thinking that drives not singularly at a problem but more at understanding the problem. Through asking questions around, in, and through the existing problem, the media designer utilizes the skills of experimentation, prototyping and analysis to generate new understanding and insight into otherwise unexplored areas with in design, culture, and business. Questions are posed outward while solutions are inward. A media designer should be able to do both with out getting dizzy from all the round and round. The ability to research and parse out specific questions allows for media designers to challenge the larger questions.
Chris R. Becker
Christopher Reid Becker
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