I actually agree that a lot of academic scholarship (including Stolterman's and my own) is "inside baseball." This has many reasons, for example, it's easy to publish things that provide value to scholars, even if they aren't relevant to practical or commercial work.
This is actually why I started the Design Disciplin project, which this post is part of. It's meant to be design scholarship outside the establishment, hopefully improving the signal/noise ratio.
It doesn't happen in one day, and it's not for everyone. I keep iterating on the scope, topics, format, etc. Happy to hear any suggestions from the HN community as we move forward.
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I actually agree that a lot of academic scholarship (including Stolterman's and my own) is "inside baseball." This has many reasons, for example, it's easy to publish things that provide value to scholars, even if they aren't relevant to practical or commercial work.
This is actually why I started the Design Disciplin project, which this post is part of. It's meant to be design scholarship outside the establishment, hopefully improving the signal/noise ratio.
It doesn't happen in one day, and it's not for everyone. I keep iterating on the scope, topics, format, etc. Happy to hear any suggestions from the HN community as we move forward.