Quality

The Japanese translation of "quality" is shitsu. We must take a closer lock at the overly simplistic clarity here. Shitsu is the level of performance of the thing in question that confirms the facts or content of that thing through our evaluating and judging from various approaches that take into consideration value and values&sbquo that is&sbquo issues of decidability&sbquo debatability&sbquo thought and sensation. This level refers to how far people are satisfied or convinced of the results of that performance. However&sbquo this is the meaning of Japanese equivalent of quality&sbquo and it is necessary to consider that the true meaning of quality is in "value judgment&sbquo" a meaning that falls through the cracks when it comes to the overall meaning of the translated term shitsu. This lets us grasp the overall value by becoming cognizant of the partial value judgment. For example&sbquo quality in "quality of life" and "quality of experience" preserves its arbitrariness as a term that confirms where exactly the content of shitsu lies. The word quality indicates the orientation of criteria used to judge the possibility&sbquo performance&sbquo use&sbquo and whereabouts of shitsu. This meaning of quality of cannot be conveyed with its Japanese equivalent shitsu. It must be pointed out that the positive meaning of quality that picks out the consciousness of value judgments that confirm the meaningfulness and whereabouts of shitsu's content are missing. About all&sbquo regarding design value and values&sbquo if we put this word on the critical axis of the expressive content or results of design it can become a keyword or concept evaluator used to confirm what has been designed or design's effective value itself. In the end&sbquo for design the meaning of quality can be said to possess a duplicity or double bind. First&sbquo quality is the value setting&sbquo the degree of satisfaction that design affords&sbquo in regards to establishing the target of design activity. Second&sbquo in scrutinizing that value setting it is an arbitrary measurement of the degree to which the designed object satisfies or persuades people. The word quality itself maintains the whereabouts of that criteria.

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