InfoD-Cafe: Designers' criticisms to the design of experimental material

[Jose de Souza]

Colleagues,

I need your help once more.

One of the criticisms made by designers in relation to the validity of
empirical research comparing "equivalents designs" for a given information
problem
(e.g., visual instructions, diagrams etc.)
is that these designs (experimental material) are per se badly designed or
amateurish.

Do you know any written example (i.e., paper or book) of such criticism?
Who are the authors of such criticisms?

Thanks.

-- 
José de Souza
PhD Student
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
The University of Reading
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