Stratton Journals

Corporate minds and creative minds differ greatly; how do we communicate our thoughts? We explain our process through writing.

These two articles explain the importance of writing skills within the design industry. When analyzing the articles I found the most important take away was, as a designer you are creating something to convince someone of something, in order to strengthen your argument, you need to back up your designs with writing.  I resonated most with the idea and importance of effectively communicating with clients.

Writing is the bridge between corporate executives and designers of all kinds. There are also many other perks of writing within design, when you break down your goals for your design piece by piece you are much more likely to come to an effective conclusion. I believe my views on writing in design have not changed after reading these articles, I stand by my reasoning and believe I have more of an argument defending my views now that I have read these. While I have not done much writing prior to big projects I believe after reviewing the pros and cons I will start doing so.

The perspective of these articles differs, the first article is a blog post specifically highlighting the positive interaction of writing for a design and the outcome, while the second article goes in depth at the effects of not writing before a design and then explaining how writing assists with the development of a design after feeling that he was at a loss.

The designer describes feeling that writing was not important because he was a designer not a writer. He ultimately understood that the two go hand in hand. I would argue the same, that you can’t write without designing and you can’t design without writing. When you write something to publish, you must design it so that each paragraph flows together.