Materializing Design

Design Practice Is What We Do

Capturing and reflecting on the design process through version control and reflective journaling.

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A GitHub commit page for the repository Lest Ten Horizons Cry, with a commit message explaining why the dials were refined.

Theories Are What We Abstract

The traces designers leave become material that peers can engage with, critique, and theorize designerly reasoning from.

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MDM Makes Practice Traceable

Every commit bundles changed materials with the reasoning behind them, so the decisions, dead ends, and sketches stay legible long after the work is completed.

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A hand-drawn design sketch from a process journal, mapping knobs and parameters for a sound-based game.

MDM Grounds Theories In Fact

Analyses read the archive closely, building claims about design practice on the record of what was actually made.

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Diagram of an MDM archive: commit messages carrying reasoning and intention above each bundle, with motivation, precedent and closing statements and a reflective journal below.

Materializing Design Makes Practice Traceable And Material