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Hi, I'm an experience designer, working on the Design Platform project.
the design platform is a sharing place for the experience designers that also aims to be a place where people can get a vision on the design practices.
There is currently a big gap between how general people understand design and how professional practice it. Which designer has ever heard "Can you make me a small drawing for tomorow ?" (Grmph... It tooks mounths to make a good product design, with a good strategy, usage cases, etc...) or "I prefer sites that does not use design, like google" (Lol... Google maybe use simple looking graphisms, yet it take care about it and most of all : it is a reference into service and interaction design ==> Usage).
The design platform team is made of volonteers that have designed a service and an interface adapted to the goal of the platform and its public. We are currently in an implementation phase, we have a prototype on Mediawiki are currently making the definitve version on XWiki wich has better WYSIWYG and user rights management features.
Have a nice day.
Thibaut
Contact : name.surname@gmail.com