The author of this small read tends to focus on the difference between humans and animals, saying that humans hold a design standard for everything that we do in life. By laying out the framework for a design before we start creating it helps us get the most basic steps down. And that the only true way for a designer to learn is by interacting with their environment and learning hands-on rather than from text books.
Technology is always evolving and makes our lives easier by providing us with quick and easy solutions to everyday problems. But maybe we are losing the one thing that makes designers important in this world. Our ability to imagine and to create, sure we can use our computers to map out solutions that we need. But without that ability to foresee the issues and solutions on our own, we cannot create something that is more alive than just being part of the architecture.
The author goes on to explain the major importance of being able to perceive the present and sketch it out by our own hands. That the most successful design is one that helps the designer interact with the user of the design in a way that is indirect. We must be able to design a product that can be used without the user having to ask questions and can use the product within immediate action.
To foresee the problem before hand and to interact with the environment, to guide the user without having to be actively there in a way that helps them grow dependent on their own skills. that is what true path finding is about, the intractability of the user and the product in a way that consciously leads the user to where they want to go.
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