Thursday, December 18, 2014

We are all designers and that unites us. However, we are met with the dilemma of unit conversions and dimensional analysis. We are required to educate ourselves with this knowledge because we are required to know how to convert measurements to best fit our needs. This skill takes us as designers to a new level. This skill is unfortunately burdened with being extremely boring. That is why my group had made a power point with some engaging gifs and a mini game with unit conversion tables for our education. As a total though, we must understated that this is not something to be taken lightly. By using these standard dimensions, we not only facilitate unit conversions, but we also unite designers. These standards eliminate the ambiguity between the metric and the English system and create a bridge between these two systems. A world without these standards and an individual way for everyone would result in a different way of working for everyone. Person A would convert in one way and person B would do it in another. We would be voluntarily creating a fissure between the systems of the world.

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