DESIGN VS. RE-DESIGN AND HOW TO INNOVATE

Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, 2007

This paper discusses how designing is much more than the execution of a process toward an end product that satisfies a client brief. Instead design and designing are integrated with a designer's personal philosophy, understandings and attributes, relationships with others, and the nature of the project.

2005

South African Journal of Higher Education, 2019

International and national developments in graphic design practice have incorporated unprecedented levels of engagement with end-user clients and audiences. However, instructional graphic design courses for undergraduates have not kept pace with this trend or with associated professional practice expectations. Traditionally, graphic design practice relies on the "expert", autocratic knowledge of the designer regarding the expected outcomes of the design brief. The use of cooperative tools and techniques such as human-centred design (HCD) enables the process to become a more democratic co-creation experience, where the client participants actively contribute to the development of the final design product. To prepare students for the new relationship between designers and end-users, newly developed HCD project interventions were created as part of the Communication Design modules offered in the third year Graphic Design Diploma programme at a University of Technology in South Africa. This article reports on two human-centred interventions in different settings and involving different types of stakeholders, with a view to analysing the experiences of students as they conducted the projects to assess the viability of the HCD projects towards establishing a proposed new curriculum that incorporates aspects of HCD as a fundamental approach to graphic design practice.

Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and Development: Technological and Organizational Perspectives , 2010

Design has been described by Bruno Latour as the missing masses, and tellingly as “nowhere to be said and everywhere to be felt” (2005: 73). Traditionally, not only objects, but design’s presence in general has gone largely unnoticed by the public, but that is changing, due, in considerable part, to the ubiquitous presence of computing technology. Design, as representative of unnoticed and neutral objects, is no longer feasible, but design, as a participative presence in the lives of its users, is fast gaining ground in our complex society. Designers are no longer fully in control of the design process, meaning design practice, and as a result design education, must change to adapt to the increasing pace at which different social groups are evolving new ways of communicating and living.

International Journal of Engineering Education, 2012

Tomorrow’s engineers must be able to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams. In response to this challenge, universities arebroadening engineering design curricula. This paper describes two educational programs at the University of California, Berkeley,that engage undergraduates from multiple disciplines in design education: 1. {design.}, a student-initiated course on the basichuman-centered design process and philosophy; and 2. the Human-Centered Design Course Thread, a certificate program in whichstudents take multiple courses across departments that are thematically linked to human-centered design. We present theorganization and management of these programs along with descriptive statistics on student participation. We also explore theimpacts these programs have had on participating students’ multidisciplinary design education, particularly: pursuing design as acareer, participating in the multidisciplinary design community, and broadening perspectives of design.

This paper addresses potential challenges in executing human-centred design (HCD) in an academic environment, focusing on (i) lack of sensibility and empathy in ethnographic research, (ii) misinterpretation of qualitative data in solution design, and (iii) uncertainty in user implementation. The study aims to enhance HCD education and improve ergonomics and efficiency in Chinampas agriculture through social perspectives. It describes the implementation of HCD strategies with undergraduate design students using challenge-based learning, employing an ideal-contextual prototyping approach. Experts and professors provided diverse perspectives and guided students in sensibility, empathy, and data interpretation, resulting in multiple approaches for each design solution. The dual-prototyping approach facilitated the acquisition of competencies, leading to a working prototype with a potential positive impact. This educational model addresses HCD challenges and fosters the creation of highimpact artifacts.

Asian CHI Symposium 2021, 2021

COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the way teaching and learning conducted in tertiary education institutions, including in Indonesia. The pandemic has not yet finished; thus, education institutions need to consider this disruption as a long-term situation and therefore need to make a significant adjustment. Design Thinking has been used for a long time to solve complex problems, but there has not been any comprehensive implementation of Design Thinking in tertiary education. In this study, we present some of the ongoing research we conducted since last year in Cohort 1 to critically evaluate and redefine the UX Design Research course delivered by the Industrial Design Department of a state university in Indonesia. The intervention of the Design Thinking framework, the so-called Design Thinking 2.0, has led to significant changes in the course and gradually improved the teaching and learning in Cohorts 2 and 3. Authentic learning goals and appropriate support mechanisms have provided sustainable improvement of the course. CCS CONCEPTS • General and reference; • Human-centered computing → Interaction design; Interaction design process and methods; User centered design; Interaction design; Interaction design process and methods; User interface design; Interaction design; Interaction design process and methods; Interface design prototyping design process and methods;

Design Issues, 2003

2014

Tomorrow’s engineers must be able to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams. In response to this challenge, universities are broadening engineering design curricula. This paper describes two educational programs at the University of California, Berkeley, which engage undergraduates from multiple disciplines in design education: 1. {design.}, a student-initiated course on the basic human-centered design process and philosophy; and 2. the Human-Centered Design Course Thread, a certificate program in which students take multiple courses across departments that are thematically linked to human-centered design. We present the organization and management of these programs along with descriptive statistics on student participation. We also explore the impacts these programs have had on participating students ’ multidisciplinary design education, particularly: pursuing design as a career, participating in the multidisciplinary design community, and broadening perspectives of design. I.

AHFE (2022) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 25., 2022

This article seeks to investigate the new paradigms of digital form and their application to the design process as a way to integrate service design from the very beginning of the process. It addresses a review of the generation of design in the key of 'activity of open-strategies conformation'. The aim is to open a deep reflection that allows an evolution of the understanding of the discipline of design linked to the outdated definition of 'task of finished-objects formalization', which is widespread and still widely assumed. Finally, the article addresses the urgency of defining new methodologies for the design process to ensure that design does not remain a shallow cultural response to the technical advances but that it has a deep understanding of the digitization which mainly means integrating variable data and adapting it to users with flexibility. User's data must enter into a Logical Structure, and produce an open-parametric-transferrable form. Service design methodologies could provide significant data related to the deep understanding of the essence of the discipline. The help of artificial intelligence promotes creativity supported by knowledge of what is essential, and even more it could create emergent phenomena, what is the path to 'right' and 'unexpected' flagship-objects/products.