{"id":1113,"date":"2025-08-15T09:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:31:45","slug":"issue-59-2-reflecting-on-the-august-2025-issue-considerations-nowadays-and-implications-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-2-reflecting-on-the-august-2025-issue-considerations-nowadays-and-implications-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on the August 2025 Issue \u2014 Considerations Nowadays and Implications For"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sitecontainer\">\n<div class=\"pagecontainer\">\n<article class=\"vj-article\">\n<div class=\"articlesidebar\">\n<h5>Issue 59.2<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-2-reflecting-on-the-august-2025-issue-considerations-nowadays-and-implications-for\">Reflecting on the August 2025 Issue \u2014 Considerations Nowadays and Implications For<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-2-research-led-pluralist-typographic-practices-case-studies-from-south-asia\">Research-Led Pluralist Typographic Practices: Case Studies from South Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-2-the-role-of-text-alignment-on-response-speed-and-accuracy-when-reading-chinese-english-bilingual-traffic-signs\">The Role of Text Alignment on Response Speed and Accuracy When Reading Chinese-English Bilingual Traffic Signs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-2-breaking-images-a-method-for-improving-design-students-visual-literacy\">Breaking Images: A Method for Improving Design Students\u2019 Visual Literacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-2-addressing-uncertainty-in-llm-outputs-for-trust-calibration-through-visualization-and-user-interface-design\">Addressing Uncertainty in LLM Outputs for Trust Calibration Through Visualization and User Interface Design<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-2-dfi-a-seat-at-the-table-designing-for-ai-with-strategy-vision-and-collaboration\">A Seat at the Table: Designing for AI with Strategy, Vision, and Collaboration<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-2-dfi-the-changing-definition-of-designers-in-the-age-of-generative-ai\">The Changing Definition of Designers in the Age of Generative AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-2-dfi-the-human-touchpoint-recommendations-for-thoughtful-ai-feature-design\">The Human Touch(point): Recommendations for Thoughtful AI Feature Design<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-2\/Visible-Language-59-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download Issue 59.2 \u27a4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articlecontent\">\n<h1>Reflecting on the August 2025 Issue \u2014 Considerations Nowadays and Implications For<\/h1>\n<h3>Matthew Peterson<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA (mopeters[at]ncsu.edu)<\/h4>\n<div class=\"abstractbox\">\n<p><span class=\"smallblueheading\">Abstract:<\/span> As Maria dos Santos Lonsdale (2025) revealed in the April issue\u2019s introductory editorial, this issue takes as its consideration the present, following that issue\u2019s consideration of the past. The articles reveal various perspectives on our present. Well, \u201cour\u201d depends upon who is doing the reflecting. Ramanathan (2025), Zhang et al. (2025), and Medley and Haddad (2025), all in rather different ways, discuss cultural or personal identities that must be addressed in the things we design and the ways we go about designing them. An outsider might think that these external factors are what our field would struggle with \u2014 as we do \u2014 but that we would have internal clarity about our field\u2019s identity. Speaking for myself \u2014 as an editor of a journal in the field, and as a senior faculty member who instructs graduate students on the nature of the field and its scholarship \u2014 I have no such clarity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"viewarticlebtn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-2\/reflecting-on-the-august-2025-issue-considerations-nowadays-and-implications-for.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"articlepdfviewer\">\n<object data=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-2\/reflecting-on-the-august-2025-issue-considerations-nowadays-and-implications-for.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-2\/reflecting-on-the-august-2025-issue-considerations-nowadays-and-implications-for.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"authorbox\">\n<p><span class=\"smallblueheading\">Authors<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Peterson<\/strong> is an associate professor of graphic and experience design at NC State University. His research focuses on visual representation in user interface design, recently including the facilitation of AI in intelligence analysis workflows through human-machine teaming, text-image integration in immersive user information systems, and the facilitation of scale cognition and numeracy in virtual environments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"viewarticlebtn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-2\/reflecting-on-the-august-2025-issue-considerations-nowadays-and-implications-for.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download PDF<\/a><br \/>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"articlecitebox\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"blueurllink\">DOI being generated<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cite this article:<\/strong><br \/>Peterson, M. (2025). Considerations nowadays and implications for. Visible Language, 59(2), iv\u2013xii. https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-2-reflecting-on-the-august-2025-issue-considerations-nowadays-and-implications-for<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>First published online August 15, 2025. \u00a9 2025 Visible Language \u2014 this article is open access, published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.<\/p>\n<p><pre>https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"vlconsortiumheading\"><strong>Visible Language Consortium:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>University of Leeds (UK)<br \/>University of Cincinnati (USA)<br \/>North Carolina State University (USA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue 59.2 Reflecting on the August 2025 Issue \u2014 Considerations Nowadays and Implications For Research-Led Pluralist Typographic Practices: Case Studies from South Asia The Role of Text Alignment on Response Speed and Accuracy When Reading Chinese-English Bilingual Traffic Signs Breaking Images: A Method for Improving Design Students\u2019 Visual Literacy Addressing Uncertainty in LLM Outputs for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-2-reflecting-on-the-august-2025-issue-considerations-nowadays-and-implications-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reflecting on the August 2025 Issue \u2014 Considerations Nowadays and Implications For&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-issue-59-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}