Category Archives: education

Design Education in the Future

If the last big rethink for design was “human centered design,” then what is this generation’s message about the nature of design? Continue reading

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online universities

what can we look for as metrics or goals of traditional college education that we want to aim to capture in new media? Obviously there is transfer of specific ideas represented as text/words – that’s basic and already captured by … Continue reading

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decoupling intuitive relations from complex calculations in mathematics education

Got my hair cut by a european lady with an advanced degree in mathematics this morning, and we managed to find a lot to agree about but it seems I need to work on this idea about a new conception … Continue reading

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experience economy

The basic idea of the experience economy was in my head soon after I got to ID, but I am only now reading it firsthand. The 1998 HBR article seems to be an excellent blueprint for creating a design consultancy … Continue reading

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too big to fail

The big book I’ve just started, Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings, points out that errors and failures are a key part of our learning process. If we were to accomplish the “goal” of many theories and methods of stopping errors … Continue reading

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