How To Talk To Designers - A short talk from the Memtech Super UG meetup

How to Talk with DesignersA Talk of Broad Generalizations

But First, an AdmissionI have multiple personalities and one is a Philosopher… shhhhhh!

Ludwig WittgensteinPhilosopher of Language, Logic, Math and the Mind

!Best Known Works:

Philosophical Investigations Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

A Common LanguageOr at least a common vocabulary during a given language game

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.”

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

WRONG

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.’"

Design Is Not All SubjectiveAnd Design is not necessarily Art

Educate and Be Educated

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

“What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.”

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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