After reading "Recipe for good Design" I began wondering how long can something be used as a resource before it becomes outdated?
I know this is an open-ended question, but when I was reading this article there were a lot of useful tips but there were also many that seemed outdated, such as the programs needed to be designed for. With technology moving so rapidly how often do we as designers need to rethink everything we are doing?
Ex: CS4 just came out, and I am just getting comfortable with CS3, I know that most others are not going to own CS4 yet, but at the same time I do not want to not want to change because of fear of not knowing how to use it, does that make since.
I went to a metals conference last weekend and there were some artists that used CAD and then some that did not. I overheard many of the people that did not use the program bad mouthing the people that did saying it is the computer doing the designing these days not the person. I do not want to be one of these negative, judging people because I uninformed.
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after you commented on my question I decided to check yours out...I do think this is a very interesting question...because it applies to so many different subject matters...weather it be researching for an english class thesis, creating websites or writing books...relevance and timeliness are huge in our society. However, who decides when something it too old to be used as a source? It was once fact..why can it not still be? And to further that idea...as technology changes, our preceptions of the world does...so how can we ever be sure that what we research, and what we are being told is ever timely? New discoveries are made each day, some of which the general public doesnt know about for years...hmmmm...sorry I kind of went off there but I think you get the idea :)
as long as that something you are using as a resource is still pertinent in the modern day it is still relevant. but it is hard to define it as just that because many outdated technologies, surveys, etc can be still be very useful for research.
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