SENSE MAKING AND FRAMING
The prospective in design synthesis was explained in form of theoretical explanation by the author Jon Kolko. He explained the exact sentence of Sensing and the framing where sensing is a constant process of acquisition, reflection, and action. It makes the people to gain the experiences of the world around them. The frame is the prospective way of changing the given situation where it is a critical use to the designer. It will change at a long term manner no in the short term manner from the point of view. Reflective Practices; Design Synthesis; Sense making; Framing; are the main key word that make sense in large thinking. All cognitive psychologists is actively trying to solve a specific and contained problem. Sense making is deeply related to a process of “socialization” that is both personal and shared, one that takes place over a long period of time, and one that is heavily dependent on a perspective or point of view.
Design synthesis is an adductive sense making process of manipulating, organizing, pruning and filtering data in an effort to produce information and knowledge. By using the data the designer should work on it by doing something related and so it make him to be active in form of design. there are some manipulation process formed by the professional designer like actions include organization, pruning, interpreting, and reframing that is given from the point of their personal perspective. The designer who put the item near each other by physically or by implicitly is known as organization. The selective way of removing the data is known as pruning. Interpretation is the extension of data and the reprocessing that data is known as reframing.
Sense making and the framing play a vital role in design synthesis to create a behavioral theory in and out of practice. In design synthesis, this personal process becomes a communal and collaborative process and is used to create one or more working design frames as they are active, adapt and change based on the project circumstance.
The personal phenomena of sense making and framing has certain outcomes like at the beginning of the design synthesis, the design team builds a shared understanding of the data and put them together that can act on the data. A series of artificial constrain are Developed by the design team which is the collaboration of sense making. the final outcome is the normative framing which mean the designer can begin to solve the problem.
The summary of this sense making and framing is described by Brenda Dervin that the designer working on the most insignificant problem approaches that problem from a complicated, unique, and both intellectual and emotional point of view. During synthesis, a designer embrace their own unique experiences, emotions, and history. These element making sense of the complicated design problem and if two designers may approach the same design problem in the same way and follow the same methods and steps, yet end up with a very different solution. There is a unique aspects of the designers themselves in styles or in design sensibility and the ability to reframe and empathize.
Conclusion is that there is a unique skill of design which has the ability to temporarily exchange or at least supplement one’s own perspective with that of another.