The end of our class in the d.school – Transformative Design. Presentations of the team projects – covering recycling, sleep management, making friends, interdiscipinary learning K-12, energy efficiency, digital privacy, personal tutoring, personal finances. Communication skills are crucial – sharing ideas with team members, listening to people in this human-centered design process. Effective use of…
design matters
critical heritage as design
To continue the argument from my previous posts – [Link] [Link] – that heritage, the (legacy) of the past in the present, is best conceived as a process of working on the past in the present – as a process of design. I have just returned from a trip to Göteborg, that most wonderfully open…
design – translating theory
Today we welcomed Al Bandura to our class Transformative Design. He came to tell us about his concept of self-efficacy – the belief in one’s ability to succeed in specific situations. This is a key component of Al’s social cognitive theory – understanding the ways that people see themselves and learn. It’s a wonderfully rich…
human centered design?
More thoughts arising from our class in the d.school on Transformative Design. I have always liked Don Norman’s ideas and attitude. A couple of weeks ago at Core 77 he questioned the feasibility of human-centered design – [Link] In today’s connected world and global market, he argues, culture matters little to design. Designers should center their…
d.school storytelling (continued)
from Nicole Kahn’s (IDEO) talk last week about need finding and ethnography
designing for change?
Our class in Stanford d.school is “Transformative Design” [Link] – design that makes a difference – design that changes things. If we want design to change what people do, we need to understand why people do what they do. While this is a very broad question that has generated many responses in many disciplines, it…
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