Understanding
Tacit Knowledge
Learning Objectives:
Mohammed Lieze Framing the Design Brief
20u130026 Communicating Effectively
Guide: Prof. Raja Mohanty Organizing Information
Framing the Design Brief Understanding
Tacit Knowledge
Explicit Knowledge Tacit Knowledge
Documented Knowledge which is acquired Experience based knowledge acquired
through Facts , Reasoning and Clear Articulation through extended practice.
Eg: Well Written Research Paper
Eg: Duplicate Key Making
Instruction Manual For Replacing a Printer Toner Managing Diplomatic Matters
Design Brief
Tacit knowledge—such as Aesthetics, Judgement, Empathy, Intuition — play a critical role in design practice.
It is often what distinguishes a technically skilled designer from a truly good designer.
My objective is to understand the different dimensions of Tacit Knowledge and bring about an awareness of
the importance of Tacit Knowledge for meaningful design education.
What Is Knowledge ? Understanding
Tacit Knowledge
By Definition, Knowledge is awareness, familiarity, or understanding of facts,
information, skills, or situations, acquired through experience, education, or study.
“ Justified True Belief ”
Belief- You hold something to be true.
Truth- It actually corresponds with reality.
Justification- You have good reasons or evidence for it.
Knowledge in Knowledge in Knowledge in
Science Sociology Design
Systematically Tested Socially Constructed Experiential understanding
Evidence-Based Shaped by culture, interactions,
and collective beliefs. Intuition, Creativity, and Context
Understanding
Understanding Tacit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
Experience-based know-how
that is hard to write down or explain
Intuitive Experiential Contextual Hard to codify
Comes from Learned by doing
Tied to real situations
Can’t be explained
feel & instincts
Understanding
Tacit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
In Design
Aesthetics Judging Beauty
Beauty without compromising Function
Right Emotional Connection
Visual Instincts
Understanding
Tacit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
In Design
Judgement Wise Decision-Making
Ability to make sound and wise decisions in complex and ambiguous situations.
Balancing Priorities Taking Right Desitions
Understanding
Tacit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
In Design
Empathy tap in to the users Shoes
Technically sound but emotionally detached.
Active Listening, Observing Asking the Right Questions Getting down to Crux of the Problem
Understanding
Tacit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge
In Design
Intuition The Designer's Sixth Sense
Ability to make Fast, unconscious decisions
Connecting the Dots Connecting the with People
Understanding
Tacit Knowledge
(In an Average Person’s Life)
Fishing Driving Bargaining
Knowing where fish Feeling the vehicle’s Reading body
are likely to be
response language
Sensing the right Anticipating traffic Sensing when to push
moment to pull
behavior
or yield
Reading subtle cues from Making instinctive Judging the other person’s
water, wind, and line tension. split-second decisions willingness to compromise.
Understanding
Tacit Knowledge
(In Specialized Fields)
Politians Surgeons Carpenter Locksmith
Cautiously Shaping Performing Complex Heightened Intuitive Crafting Keys with
Public Life through Operations under Sense of Material, Exact Proportions and
Understanding of Extreme Pressure Form, and Craft Fine Adjustments,
People, Persuasion, with Precision, Guided by a Deep
and Strategic Clarity & Care Intuitive Sense of
Decision-Making Precision, Alignment,
and Material Behavior.
Tacit Knowledge
from a common man
Chart
Understanding
Study Methods Tacit Knowledge
Study Subjects
Potter Weaver
(Abbas Galwanid) (Muzammil)
Typographer Filmmaker
(to be decided) (to be decided)
Thinking out loud sessions
Video Documentation& Comaprison
Story telling
Observing from the Work Environment
Understanding
Possible Outcomes Tacit Knowledge
Info Graphics Exhibition/
charts/ Posters Installation
A classification of tacit Knowledge needed across Live demonstration with various experience
different design domains (graphic, product, UX, etc.). that communicate tacit Knowledge
Short Documentary
Video documentation focusing on difference between
designers with low tacit knowledge with high tacit knowledge.
Understanding
Tacit Knowledge
Thank You