The Reflective Practitioner
by Donald A. Schon · first published 1991
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A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions, engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schön maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on the kind of improvisation learned in practice. This unarticulated, largely unexamined process is the subject of Schön's provocatively original book, an effort to show precisely how reflection-in-action wo
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…design), which is as its core not primarily UX or visual design, though it has elements of both. Herb Simon's The Sciences of the Artificial is my favorite book in this area, though Donald Schön's The Reflective Practitioner is also a good book on design in this broader sense of producing human-usable artifacts out of materials.
on “Can't Code? Learn Design.” ↗Item #2 relates to reflecting on your work, Reflective Practice. Give Donald Schon's book The Reflective Practitioner a read (or heck, the Wiki page). It deals with being able to rise above work and improve how you work.
on “How to do hard things” ↗…the things you mentioned. From a high-level point of view, I believe the most important influence on the course was the work by Donald Schön. You might want to check out his writings - especially The Reflective Practitioner. > a UX designer with a background in HCI, trapped in an uninspired and aging tech company trying to get them to think differently or die trying. I think a lot of this is more political than anything…
on “Show HN: Brainstorm Troubles” ↗I’d recommend to read the reflective practitioner, by Donald Schön
on “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf]” ↗I was also struck by a similar section of Reflective Practitioner and wrote this thread some years ago about how professional ambiguity is furthered as computers advance: https://twitter.com/thadk/status/1211175280498356226?s=21
on “The Ambiguity of Real Work” ↗