How Can Designers Help the World Simplify?
By understanding how people value the things they acquire or consume, designers can create informed innovations that change the underlying patterns of consumption and the ways that people frame needs and desires.
Professional Explorer
The important distinction between observing and interpreting is in situating yourself as a learner and not an educator.
Rightsizing
What are people’s sense of enough? What is enough? Does more bring satisfaction? What is the right size?
Moving Fast
My account of the design blitz; completing the entire design process in one week, from interviews and observations to prototyping the final concept.
Possession/s
This year’s topic for Design Research will examine our material possessions and how we think and feel about them.
Day One
No chairs was the first clue that this was going to be an uncomfortable process.
Design Research, “an introduction to the theory and practice of various types of design research including human-centered qualitative and ethnographic methods as well as formal and analytical techniques.” In short, this course covers IDEO’s process in the 15 weeks it [...]