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OpenEI
- describe your understanding of meta-design in your own words (not copying a paragraph from a paper or a website)
- setting: you are talking to another student who is interested in design; how would you explain to her/him the strengths and weakness of meta-design as a design methodology
- analyze the site you selected from a meta-design perspective.
Created by Myung Kim
1. In general, Meta-design is all about creating a better thing through an existing objects which we may see everyday of our life through the collaboration of designers of many different fields.
2.
Strong Point:
I think the strong point of meta-design is all about creation. Since it is done by multiple people, this will bring out fresh and many different aspects of design for an object.
Weak Point:
There is a proverb saying "Too many cooks spoil the stew." This is not always true, but there maybe chance that the design will go really wrong, and may result totally weird thing that is fundamentally different from original use of the object. Also this is seen by many users, and wrong idea may direct many people in a wrong way.
3.
My first impression for this website was very distractive and messy. Unlike other Meta-design websites, OpenEI website is purely focussed on energy information, data, and resources related to energy. It still has edit function that can be edited by many different users as long as they sign up for the website. The website was very associative with many social networks such as Facebook, Twitters, and etc. Despite the fact that the interface is not quite clean for users, the website will be quite useful to those people want to know and share about energy related resources. But since this website is focussed on specific topic, energy, I think this will be mostly earn and read information website rather a meta-design website. The information poster will be mostly energy related company or government related organization, and most of users will be readers/consumers.
