Recently, I’ve been researching control and disorder in the design process.
Category: Now Now
WHO RUN THE WORLD? girls.
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
Where’d everybody go?
What makes a community? What’s that mean anyway?
Collaborative Doodling: A Ritual
A manifestation of the MGD collaborative doodles.
Propaganda & Advertisement
Design has become a driving force across the world that can reject or support ideas and in turn, influence public opinion.
The S.T.E.A.M. Engine
A team of three students from other backgrounds at NCSU and myself have begun a project to find a way to get creativity and arts into science and math classes in high schools.
It’s a process
Can our work manifest a sacredness of process?, says Dajana.
Emotional Rescue
Continuing down the rabbit hole of research for our studio project, I’ve started looking into the concept of designing for emotion and the work of Donald Norman…
Design as a Business
The business of design is an intriguing idea. In college we learn what makes “good design”, but when you take these skills to the public so many needs become obvious.
When Words Don’t Escape You
Actions speak louder than words but sometimes words are neat too.
Relying on rituals
I’ve been reading a lot lately about rituals; what they are, why we have them, and how they can be created/used by designers.
Play-Doh UX
Sculpting a model for research that includes making
Speed is of the essence
Losing control of craftsmanship.
Phenomeknowledge
What does it mean to be inclusive in a Phenomenological way?
Teaching technology
Design has always been an ever changing and very adaptive field since its advent. Technology goes hand in hand with improvement or in better words, updating of teaching methods.
So. Many. People.
If you have a unique thought but someone has already thought it and you just don’t know it, is it still unique?
Problematic
Are design practices pushing for defining design as problem solving for credibility and convenience? Since the very nature of design principles and practices resist definition (the definition is constantly shifting) does it make sense to strive to gain a seat at the table of problem solving?
Non-thinkers are more creative
The constraint of boredom leads to creativity. Can mindless making be the best path to revolutionary thinking?
Towards a AI-designer partnership
Artificial intelligence advances are accelerating and thus requires us, designers to start rethinking what will be the future of our field and profession.