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What happens when everyone designs but nobody is a designer? In an alternate future design is a core practice that happens across disciplines. It's been gobbled up as a problem-solving approach critical to all walks of life. In this future design degrees don't exist but design is taught as a minor or elective across all others. The skills or qualities of design become diffused across all forms of work. The Great Diffusion. We're already seeing signs of this future in: - The continuing pressure on design courses to be more efficient in their delivery, i.e more like the humanities. - The diffusion of design skills and approaches through the uptake of design thinking across organisations. - The POTENTIAL for machine learning to deliver technical solutions that would previously require specialised design expertise. What would be the implications for you as a designer? If you're a designer wanting to learn futures thinking you might be interested in Avant. It's a cohort-based course to: - Develop your futures thinking skills - Create a collection of scenarios about the future of design - Use these as a catalyst for change. The deadline to be part of the first cohort is midnight tonight NZT. You can find out more on the website. Use the link or first promoted post in my profile.

Design for good is a topic I’m hugely passionate about… but it’s a TON of responsibility to be a guiding light for the industry at-large. It’s an opportunity to peek into our own biases—which can get uncomfortable sometimes. And design for good is such a big topic, it simply couldn’t be a single blog post… So I made it a series for Flatiron School. Part 1 aims to address those biases, reveal a bit of the dark side of design, and hopefully address the fact that our work can both do good things, and sometimes harmful things. As designers, it’s important that we actively work to ensure we’re not perpetuating the dark side of design. Design for Good will be a 3-part series, and I can’t wait for the rest to come out soon! https://lnkd.in/gTSF2vPn

Is a masters degree needed as a designer? 🤔 A debatable topic. I’d love to hear your take. PS: I am 31. And I still don’t have a masters. I’d like to think I am doing fine in my career. 🤭 PPS: Would you like to know why I didn’t go for my masters yet? #masters #mastersindesign #designmasters #furthereducation #designeducation

You only need one thing to start building a following on LinkedIn Something you're passionate about that you can write on Yup! That's it! (Notice how I didn't say you needed to be an expert on it?) What you DON'T need is 15+ years of experience in your field, to be the founder of multiple companies, a degree, a job, or even to be a certain age I'm passionate about design I could talk about it for hours Am I an expert? Absolutely not! I'm a second-year design student who didn't even know Industrial Design existed until a few years ago, yet I've still been able to build a strong network here Being experienced and having that extra credibility helps for sure, but it's not a requirement, nor is it necessary If you think you're not qualified or don't have anything interesting to talk about... 1. Learning, doing your research, and being passionate is enough     2. Ask yourself what you care about and what your goals are. I'm telling you, there's something there worth posting about! No matter where you are in your career or life, as long as you're learning, you've got resources you can share, experiences people will relate to, and opinions to put out there If you need someone to tell you you can do it... here it is: You CAN do it - 👋 I'm Rebecca Scarbrough, an Industrial Design student at Georgia Tech and the Founder of Design Does That, a blog dedicated to observing the field of design from a student's perspective Follow me if you'd like to tag along throughout my design school experience! Let's go on this journey together 🌱💪 #industrialdesign #designer #designersoflinkedin #designstudents #womenindesign #students #linkedin  

HOT OFF THE PRESSES! We will sit down with the authors of the brand new Service Design book: "The Materials of Service Design" Johan Blomkvist Simon Clatworthy and Stefan Holmlid > Tuesday April 23rd, Noon CT "If Design is about forming materials, then what are the materials of Service Design? In this ground-breaking book, Johan Blomkvist, Simon Clatworthy and Stefan Holmlid explore this question by establishing a discourse around the materials of service design, discussing materials as a means to study what service design is and could be. Exploring the contours and foundations of the field, this innovative book redefines the material and opens with an investigation of how service has been understood as a material in design. With insights from expert practitioners in the field, chapters then examine a vast library of materials, including social structures, touch-points, thinking, culture, time, organisations, conversations, data, human bodies and more. Making sense of this material mix, the book delves into the material of the immaterial and displays the diversified and expansive field of service design today. In doing so, it forms a starting point to go beyond reductionist ideas of the material-immaterial dichotomy and makes room for new constructivist perspectives. Contributing to the development of education within service design, this insightful book will be invaluable for practitioners and course leaders looking to navigate a new path to service design. Founded in design as a knowledge intensive practice, it will also be transformative for the research of students and scholars of marketing, service design, design theory, and innovation studies." E-book ($30) https://lnkd.in/g27x_G9U Or Amazon ($145) https://lnkd.in/gurihS_3 Service Design Network Brandon Ward Christopher Robin Roberts Brenda Plinck Judee Bendiola Birgit Mager Jesse Grimes Brian Gillespie

NEXT TUESDAY (4/23/24) : We will sit down with the authors of the new service design book: "The Materials of Service Design". A very novel approach to look at the intangible materials we use every day in the practice of Service Design: Conversations, behaviors, culture, thinking...

Interesting article to help in the process of design research

I rarely have nice things to say about Fast Company anymore, but this article is spot on. Mostly. The path to making the design professions more inclusive is to introduce young kids to the design arts. It is a shame public schools do not have more capacity to include design education. Design at its core is about problem-solving. Even if a student never becomes a practicing professional, design concepts and techniques can be used across their curriculum and outside of school as well. #design #education #designthinking

Design has changed a lot lately! Technology, how people act, and what industries need have all played a part. This not only affects how designers work but also shakes up how we teach design. Read this article to know the #KeyTrends in the #DesignIndustry and #CareerPaths: https://shorturl.at/oLT37 #ArtShalaOnline #designschool #artanddesign #designthinking #artschool #ArtShalaCenterForDesign

Case Study Example: Great Corby School THE BRIEF Great Corby School asked us to design and build a new website, and were looking for something unique and original, to make sure it felt like a true reflection of what it is like to attend the school as a pupil. They provided some examples of other school websites they liked, and after seeing our case studies had several websites we'd created that had similar styles and design features, they knew we would be able to create something amazing for them. THE APPROACH As school websites can be large and need a lot of information presented in diverse ways, we spent time initially to determine the best menu structure, and understand what pages and sections would be required. Taking a stunning mosaic from the school office as inspiration for the design, Maxine worked with the text content from the school, and our planned page layout requirements, to design key website pages. THE RESULTS The final website pulls together all of the requirements we were initially given - simple navigation, clear access on the home page to key website pages like the calendar, and a design that looks friendly, yet professional. A range of core features allow the school to easily update the news section, upload documents to the policies page (including automatic generation of the document thumbnails) and edit page content as required. At the time of launch a few pages were still to be populated as the school were super-keen to move away from their previous provision. Overall, this was a radical overhaul, with the new website creating a welcoming and visually stunning online presence for the school. Finished website: https://lnkd.in/dCmi3DBc