Future of design education

Structure

Personal lead in

What is design thinking?

How do we teach it?

Who should learn it?

Used

Design thinking vs. design skills

Simon

”...Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artifacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state. Design, so construed, is the core of all professional training; it is the principal mark that distinguishes the professions from the sciences. Schools of engineering, as well as schools of architecture, business, education, law, and medicine, are all centrally concerned with the process of design.”
The Sciences of the Artificial, 1969

Background

History of design div / IDEO, etc.

IDEO books

My paper on interaction design

From Computing Machinery to Interaction Design, from Peter Denning and Robert Metcalfe (eds.), Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing, Springer-Verlag, 1997, 149-162.

Emergence of interaction design

User centered
Moggridge book

Focus on experience

Don Norman
Jane Suri

Enlightened trial and error

"enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects."

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management (Hardcover), Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton

Design in context vs. design as object

Integration of larger aspects

T-shaped

Not a replacement for traditional design

Nature of design skills education, analytic education, design thinking education

Classroom, studio, project

Collaboration vs. individual stars

People – Bernie, Julian

Economics

Business
Nonprofit

Integrated setting (university) vs. separated design school

Opportunity for collaboration across schools

Design thinking for everyone vs. specialist designers

Breadth vs. specialization (graphic, industrial, architecture,…)

Summer workshop

Aeronautics/Astronautics
Applied Physics
Biological Sciences

Chemistry

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Computer Science

Education

Electrical Engineering

Geological & Environmental Sciences

Management Science and Engineering

Materials Science and Engineering

Mechanical Engineeering / Design

Medicine/Bioengineering

Medicine/Developmental Biology

Music

Political Science

Psychology

Spanish and Humanities

Design thinking specialists as coaches rather than executors

Other schools

Design planning – IIT

The School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) was created when The TechnicalUniversity of British Columbia was merged with SimonFraserUniversity.

There are several key factors that differentiate this program from those of more traditional design schools. In particular, we emphasize the need to balance the technical (utilitarian and performance) with the human (cognitive, social and cultural) parameters throughout the design development process by building an active dialogue with prospective users. In addition the program advocates structured field-testing as an integral part of the methodology to validate the combined goals of function, utility, performance and experience. The dual intentions here are to ensure that designs are appropriate to their receptor communities and to strengthen the relationship between theory and practice. Another key difference is clearly evident in the unique structure and delivery of the curriculum designed to respond to the demands of the technological change that is radically reshaping our world today

Business – Rotman

CMU front page

We believe in learning by doing in a human-centered design process and in the value design brings to a range of human activities.

d.school

napkin

origin with Hasso

Role of method

Doing not just thinking

Sutton book?

Leifer research

d.school project-based courses

Bootcamp

Wallet (1 hour)

Sundae

Coffee experience

Biking safety

Entrepreneuring with $5

K-12 teacher

Storytelling session

The world as your studio

Patell - India, Myanmar

Pam course, - design groups

Hasso course - Sapphire

medical course,….