Designing For Purpose

Design involves understanding customer needs and creating new processes and products to satisfy those needs. Invention creates something new, while innovation implements something new for customers. Effective design starts with understanding students and their abilities, challenges, and motives, rather than just focusing on content coverage. Good design requires more front-end planning to engage students, which increases learning, while poor design leads to more back-end remediation. The design process involves understanding needs, brainstorming ideas, prototyping solutions, and measuring engagement and achievement.

Presentation by Grant Young at Design Thinking Sydney meetup, Feb 2016. Looks at some of the differences in applying common UX, design thinking and lean startup methods in a for-purpose context. Touches on defining value, flearning, engaging stakeholders, behaviour change, metrics and traction.

This document discusses solution thinking and the design of development. It presents a model of solution development that involves four stages: exploration, expectation, modeling, and experimentation. Each stage addresses five key issues: cases, instances, circumstances, proofs, and acceptance. The stages help mature the solution towards final acceptability. Design is considered part of the development process, where the goal is to progress the solution from a problem state to an agreed-upon solution state. Solution thinking uses design to guide this development process.

Miles introduces himself as a graphic designer and problem solver who grew up in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He studied graphic arts in college with minors in studio arts and gender studies, and spent a semester abroad in Australia. Miles has experience with photography as a student photographer for Marian University sports and performances. He also has experience in graphic design and videography. Miles emphasizes that he is a creative problem solver who is adaptable, flexible, and always learning. He includes that he works hard and considers himself a funny person.

This document contains a list of random words with no clear meaning or connection between them. It provides no coherent ideas, story, or message to summarize in 3 sentences or less.

I gave this presentation at IDSA 2005 in Washington, D.C. It's my take on the very long history of IxD.

These slides argue for a rigorous Design Process to make work better within the shot-first-edit-second world of media production. Developed by Kit Laybourne for the MA Program in Media Studies at the New School, in NYC.

As designers the most important question we can ask ourselves is "why?" Asking why helps us to understand our purpose and a clear purpose ensures that we know our own value and our contributions are meaningful. Design with purpose.

Resolving confclicts webinar presentation by Ksenia Dementieva http://www.exigenservices.ruwebinars/resolving-conflicts

Packaging and labeling serve several important purposes. Packaging protects products during shipping and storage, prevents tampering, and aids in product promotion and sales. Labeling provides key information to customers about product contents and use. Effective labels feature graphics and fonts that attract attention, communicate the brand, and describe the product through colors, shapes, and clearly presented contact and contents information. Together, packaging and labeling are an essential part of marketing strategy and ensuring safe and appropriate product use.

Guest Lecture for the Data Visualization class at Ateneo de Manila University. Basic design principles for Computer Science students. For educational purposes only, no copyright infringement intended.

Week 12, Introduction to Package Design Presentation from Introduction to Graphic Design, Columbia College Chicago. Much of the content taken from readings, including the textbooks: Timothy Samara's "Design Elements" and "Design Evolution." Other references cited in presentation. Please note: many slides are intended for class discussion and might not make sense out of context.