12. Have a go
• What is your topic?
• Break it down into concepts
• Think about your keywords:
• Synonyms
• Different spellings
• International variations
• Acronyms etc
• Broader/related topics/detail
• Include/Exclude
• Use search tips: https://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/pdde/SearchTips
Sketching and drawing styles for product/industrial design
18. WGSN Lifestyle and Interiors
MyUniHub > My Study > MyLibrary > Databases
19. Your Librarian is:
Your Librarian https://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/VanessaHill
Vanessa Hill
v.hill@mdx.ac.uk
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Notas del editor
Need:
Need to email image to SLA and KH
https://padlet.com/hendonmdx/Words (for drawing exercise)
https://padlet.com/HendonMDX/keywordsPD1 (keyword exercise)
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Intros.
Session all about communicating what you need so that you can find information. Information is everywhere and we can all access it 24/7, but its important to make sure that you find the best information that you can.
The more information you find, the more knowledge and inspiration you will have, hopefully the better designer you will be.
This session aims to help you search for information and the following workshop will look at some of the resources that you can use, plus how to evaluate information.
This session is all about communicating your ideas when searching for information.
Thinking about the importance of the words you use when searching i.e. using the best keywords – this is important if you are using the Internet or library resources later on.
Search tips to help you streamline/improve your search
Searching the Internet – getting the best out of it
And finally we will also look briefly at finding copyright free images on the Internet and from other sources.
We’ll be concentrating on the Internet as your main source of information in this session, although later on in your programme it will be important to know how to find reliable, good quality information from other sources such as books and journals.
To start things off we are going to do an exercise to get you thinking about the importance of communication.
https://padlet.com/hendonmdx/Words
Go to this Padlet
Click on the pink circle (bottom right) to open a box
Add your name at the top of the box
Click on the 3 dots
Select ‘Drawing’
Draw what SLA tells you to draw
Click on ‘Save’ when I say stop
Click on ‘Publish’
You have 3 minutes.
This is what it should have looked like.
Hopefully you can see now why it is important to communicate your ideas.
Different people describe things in different ways e.g. Pac man shape.
So lets think about keywords in a bit more detail- these are the search terms that you use to search for information on the Internet or in library resources..
It is important to think carefully about the words that you use to describe a topic. There is a phrase connected with computing – ‘Garbage in, Garbage out’ i.e. incorrect or poor quality input will always produce poor quality output.
When describing a topic you need to use meaningful words. If you don't use the right language or words, then you won't find what you need.
You will need to think beyond the obvious keywords i.e. think beyond the words that appear in your essay title or project brief, to ensure that you find as much information as possible.
Using a range of quality search terms will enable you to find information which is relevant.
When you need to search for information, think about:
The topic……. Try and summarise your topic in 4 or less words. This will allow you to identify appropriate keywords which you can use to search with.
Detail…….what things do you want to focus on
Broader subject…….think about the bigger picture. This might help you set the seen, provide background etc.
Think about alternative keywords that can be used to describe the topic::
Synonyms i.e. different words that mean the same or almost the same.
Different spellings: some words can be spelt in several different ways such as the word jewellery or fairy, also Americanisms….organisation (UK) and organization (US).
Common/ Scientific/Professional/Academic terminology – consider the language you use in order to find the right ‘level’ of information i.e. use words that are likely to appear on the sort of websites you are looking for e.g. E.g. If you are trying to find reliable medical information about headaches for example- is searching for “my head hurts” the best keywords to use? The word ‘headache’ is more likely to be used on a medical site. And you are going to get better information in this case from medical websites such as the NHS.
International variations e.g. pavement (UK), sidewalk (US)
Acronyms/abbreviations/Initialisms:
Acronym: an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word e.g. MODA – Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture
Abbreviation: a shortened form of a word or phrase e.g. Tribeca (Triangle below Canal Street)
Initialism: NHS – National Health Service
Related subjects: are there other subjects that you need to consider when you search for information that will add to your work.
It is also important to consider what you want and what you don't want (Inclusion/Exclusion criteria) e.g. language, gender, publication date etc
Is your topic world-wide or country specific (Geographic).
Are you looking at a specific era, century of the last 10 years for example (Time).
Stop Words – I read somewhere that 25% of blog posts are made up of ‘stop words’, however these words have little to no relevance to the topic. These are words that help you compose sentences and connect ideas together, and they don’t have much impact on Google’s search results. The most common SEO stop words are pronouns (mine, yours, his, hers, its), articles (a, an, the), prepositions (by, from, in, on, under), and conjunctions (and, nor, but, yet). This includes words like a, an, the, and, it, for, or, but, in, my, your, our, and their.
https://padlet.com/HendonMDX/keywordsPD1
Lets try another exercise.
I’m going to put you in to breakout rooms.
One of you will need to share your screen and go to the Padlet https://padlet.com/HendonMDX/keywordsPD1
Look at the images and think of as many words as you can to describe what you see in the pictures.
Do not use the word(s0 that you see above each image, but think of alternative words, different spellings, acronyms, detail and the broader topic etc.
Add these words as comments under each picture.
Lets see who can get the longest list of potential keywords if we were going to use them to search for information.
Firstly let me tell you which group you are in.
The keywords you use are important to get what you want from the Internet, but you can also use some of these search tips to ensure that you get what you want.
design* (broaden search eg. Design, designers, designing etc)
“Festival of Britain” (phrase search)
+Ideo or “IDEO” (exact match)
Define: “paper prototyping” (definition) – you still need to evaluate the search results for example – Wikipedia will be there.
Jaguar –Cat +XK8 (exclude/include words)
Most search engines have an ‘advanced search’ feature which will guide you through the process of refining your search.
With Google, you just need to carry out a search, then click on the ‘settings’ icon and select ‘Advanced search’ from the drop down menu.
You can then specify:
Exact phrases and words – to stop Google trying to fix what it thinks are spelling errors.
Words to include and exclude
Number ranges such as years and weights
Language
Pages published in a particular region
When a page was last updated
Search within a particular domain such as .edu, .ac or .org etc.
I have been getting them to look for examples of sketching and drawing styles (this is going to be an on going activity), so that might work really well-for example searching sketching mostly gives art based results, when they’re trying to find drawing styles that relate to product design or industrial design. If you type design drawings, it’s mostly still art based. Product design sketch is more useful. Or they can search by drawing media – so fineliner drawing or fine liner sketch (endless variations depending on how it’s characterised).
Sketching - 9,760,000,000
Sketching product design 22,7000,000
Sketching “product design” 7,370,000
sketching "product design" –art 302,000
sketching "product design" -art (techniques OR styles) 468,000
sketch* (techniques OR styles) 840,000,000
sketch* (techniques OR styles) "product design" –art 641,000
sketch* (techniques OR styles) "product design" -art fineliner 531
What is one of the main questions to ask of information?
American College of Pediatricians: Bullying at School- Never acceptable
https://acpeds.org/position-statements/bullying-at-school-never-acceptable
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is a socially conservative advocacy group of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals in the United States.[1] The group was founded in 2002. In 2005, it reportedly had between 150 and 200 members and one employee; in 2016 it reportedly had 500 physician members.[2][3] The group's primary focus is advocating against abortion and the adoption of children by gay or lesbian people. It also advocates conversion therapy
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is a fringe anti-LGBTQ hate group that masquerades as the premier U.S. association of pediatricians to push anti-LGBTQ junk science, primarily via far-right conservative media and filing amicus briefs in cases related to gay adoption and marriage equality.
American Academy of Pediatricians: Cyberbullying
https://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/Media/Pages/Cyberbullying.aspx
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is an American professional association of pediatricians, headquartered in Itasca, Illinois. It maintains its Department of Federal Affairs office in Washington, D.C
*******We will look at evaluating information in more detail in your next workshop*******
There are lots of places that you can find images – Instagram, Flickr and Pintrest for example, however if you are using them in any work that might enter the public domain, then you need to make sure that they are copyright free.
Attribution: If the academic work is purely for their course or assessment and won’t be made publicly available, students can freely use any images or extracts from copyright work under a legal exception for education (S.32) as long as they acknowledgement the creator and source.
Creative Commons/Copyright free images: If the work is to be made publicly available, the education exception will still apply in addition to another exception for criticism, review or quotation (S.30) which may apply, but this would need a risk assessment based on several factors, so it’s easier and safer to use Creative Commons licensed or Copyright free images where possible.
The sites our Copyright Officer usually recommend are Unsplash and Pixabay although more are popping up all the time which host Public Domain or CC0 images. CC0 is a license that allows copyright owners to release their works with no restrictions at all. Images under public domain or CC0-License can be used by anyone for any purpose.
Other sites include:
Nappy.co ‘s licence is CC0 which means all photos can be used for absolutely any purpose with no requirements.
Pexels’ license basically allows the same but without a CC licence attached.
CC Licensed or copyright free images can also be found via Google Images or Flickr by filtering the search by Licence Type – more in a moment.
KV strongly advises that you avoid any CC BY 2.0 licensed images/content unless they fully comply with any additional accreditation or hyperlinking requirements set by the individual copyright owners i.e. read and comply with the small print in the terms of use.
Its all very complicated, so if in doubt have a look at the link on the screen or contact our Copyright Officer Kate Vasili.
Flickr – is an online photo management and sharing application. Can be used to find CC licensed images.
Flickr has a simple way of searching for copyright free images:
Search
Select ‘Any license’
Select ‘All Creative Commons’
Select image
Click on ‘Some rights reserved’ underneath the image to see what you can and cannot do with the image/
Google Search has a simple way of searching for copyright free images:
Search
Select ‘Images’
Click on ‘Tools’
Choose ‘Creative Commons Licences’ under ‘Usage Rights’ drop-down menu. – you should be able to use these images
The other option is ‘Commercial and other licences’ – subscription image services etc such as ‘Shutterstock’, ‘Getty’, ‘Dreamstime’ etc – you should not use these.
More info about copyright at the link on the screen.
Trend and colour forecasting, business strategy, trade news etc
Great for copyright free images.
Need further help
This is the end of the workshop. If you require further help, then please contact me. My email address is on the screen: v.hill@mdx.ac.uk
