Enhancing professional development of internee through reflection in textile & apparel design

Contemporary design process is having to place greater emphasis on plan, knowledge, communication, use, and social impact, but value and meaning are getting less focus that are embedded in the design (Friedman, 2012; Margolin, 2002; Norman, 2010). Whenever design process takes place, arrangement, knowledge and making a design always get more attention. But in this process meaning making and value that has to be added in society through the design is not kept under focus. In our design community, and an era of competition in contemporary design everybody seeks to have a high dilemma of exquisition. This is may be due to the reason that the traditional form for design practice put very little emphasis on the response of end user contribution and completing the process of design through action and meaning making (Kimbell, 2012), it also suggests that design might be understood in a better way. For instance, designer would have to act as facilitator for social action, rather than developing a product only but also to serve that product for consumer. The consumer is a vital part of the design process and how they use, incorporate, and individualize a design (Kimbell, 2012). The designer and the consumer are two main parts of the design system (stakeholders)’ (p. 10). That is why an ethical practice is required where designers are more prioritised than the designed objects. Designers must be concerned with the idea of effectiveness, that what they are developing is most suitable according to demand of consumer according to their demand.

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