A perspective about design cognition to research through making validation in graphic design
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In graphic design the visualization instinct is particularly relevant but limited before complexity. The manipulation of representations helps the process in the absence of stimulus, the processing is assisted in a dialectic nurtured by the sensory experience of the world. The image is important in analysis and synthesis, and memory is an essential learning process support. Our discussion about design cognition involves phenomenology, all senses experience in the analytical process. The production of meaning is done without loss of significance when knowledge about reality is obtained by research through making, revealing conditions for facing the question of objectivity in design.
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