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Plagiarized?
So I was checking my web stats, and the following phrase was googled 5 times this month:
“design is finding defining and solving human problems pragmatically through the creation of products.”
The thing about that phrase, is that I wrote it last spring (as part of a paper discussing the definition of Interaction Design for Jodi Forlizzi’s seminar). I also posted that paper here on my blog. If you do a google search with the phrase in quotes, then my blog post is the only thing that comes up.
So why on earth would anyone be Googling that phrase? The only thing I can think of is that someone somewhere stole it and put it in a paper they called their own. The smart person grading/reviewing that paper then noticed that the phrase didn’t fit with the rest of the writing and decided to Google it to see if it was lifted from somewhere else (which of course it had been).
If whoever has been googling that phrase reads this - please let me know, I’d love to hear the story. I hold no ire - if anything I’m rather flattered that someone might like my definition of interaction design enough to steal it.
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October 27th, 2008
Posted by Paul in CMU, Design Thinking |