Researches on design activity and cognitive process of different design disciplines have been explored on the foundation of design thinking theories through various research methods. This paper calls to the attention of visual communication designers' thinking processes with research goals of proposing a research method for the analysis of visual communication designer’s thinking process and conducting experiments on visual communication designers to analyze design activities and cognitive processes from problem structuring phase to detailing phase. After a comprehensive review on research methods for the analysis of design thinking process, experiment appropriate for examining design activities and cognitive processes of visual communication designers is designed. Two visual communication designers participated in the experiment and the verbal and visual data collected are analyzed through two separate coding schemes. Results from the experiments indicate that visual communication designers perform various activity modes such as thinking, examining, writing, sketching, and working with computer throughout the process of designing. They structure ill-defined design problem by multi-modal activities of thinking and examining and generate either a design concept or a visual concept by writing and sketching. They refine visual design by working with computer. The simultaneity and the modal shifts of the activities have shown to make novel design decisions. Visual communication designers diverge their thoughts during problem structuring phase to preliminary design and again, during design refinement to detailing for visual exploration . Convergence of visual concept is done rapidly after examining their writings. Convergence of visual execution is done by the designer’s level of satisficing design work through computer iterations.
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Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Background 2.1. Design thinking process 2.2. Analysis methods for design thinking researches 3. Experiment 3.1. Overview of the experiment 3.2. Data collection 4. Results 4.1. Activity modes of visual communication designers 4.2. Symbol systems and cognitive processes of visual communication designers 5. Conclusion References
학술영역의 확대 발전에 따른 다학제적 융복합 학술연구를 통한 시대적 소명을 다함이 21세기 학회 활동의 주요한 키이워드가 되고 있다. 이에 본 학회는 21세기가 요구하는 국내외 디자인 전 분야에 관한 국제교류, 학술 연구활동, 창작활동, 대정부 정책 건의 등의 시대적 소명을 다하고 대한민국 대표 디자인학회로의 재 도약을 위해 가일층 노력하는 학술단체가 되고자 설립되었다.