Artifacts: The Aloha Shirt
November 17, 2022 | Melissa Warr | Artifacts, Case Studies, Design |
November 17, 2022 | Melissa Warr | Artifacts, Case Studies, Design |
Artifacts: The Aloha Shirt
When we think of casual workwear, we might think of hoodie-wearing CEOs, khaki pants, and jeans on casual Fridays. We might even have experience with “Hawaiian Shirt Friday,” the epitome of casual Friday in the United States. The Aloha (or “Hawaiian,” …
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April 21, 2020 | Amanda Riske | Design |
How are teachers handling massive school closures?: A teaser for this Friday’s panel
Join us 3/24 at 6 PM MST/9 PM EDT at bit.ly/TADLiveStream to learn about our panelist for the discussion about school redesign during a pandemic. We will hear from three educators in Asia. READ MORE »
April 20, 2020 | Amanda Riske, Melissa Warr, Steven Weiner, Kevin Close, Punya Mishra, Luis Perez Cortes and Ben Scragg | Design, Systems |
Redesigning a school (during a Pandemic): Lessons from Asia
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced educators to rapidly shift classes and coursework into online formats…but what about the other aspects of school? How do counselors, performing arts directors, and librarians support a school community that has sudden … READ MORE »
April 8, 2020 | Steven Weiner, Melissa Warr, Ben Scragg, Amanda Riske, Luis Perez Cortes, Punya Mishra and Kevin Close | Design |
Excerpts from Design Salon I: Shift Happens
Once a month we hold a design salon to discuss design-related topics that pique our interest. This month, we changed our topic to discuss how the current pandemic has been shifting our education system. The conversation raised a series of important tho … READ MORE »
March 19, 2020 | Kevin Close | Artifacts, Case Studies, Design |
Viral Design: How “Flatten the Curve” May Curb the Pandemic
Why has such a simple (and scientifically incorrect) graph become a symbol of the fight against the COVID-19? It’s about design. READ MORE »
March 10, 2020 | Melissa Warr | News |
Join us Friday! Shift happens: Stumbling into the future post-Corona
Join us for a chat about education, design, and COVID19! Friday, 3/20, 11 AM PST, bit.ly/TADSalon READ MORE »
March 4, 2020 | Melissa Warr | Processes |
Three Cheers for Process Design!
Process design is creating a set of actions that can be used multiple times. Join the Talking About Design team in three cheers for process design! Bonus process design tool included. READ MORE »
March 3, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design |
Designing Theory: New article
Theory is of incredible importance to scholars and researchers. Theories allow us to understand, explain and predict phenomena in the world. That said it is often difficult to say just where theories come from. READ MORE »
February 21, 2020 | Amanda Riske | Case Studies, Design, Systems |
Case Study – The New York City Subway
This case study dives into the design and redesign of the subsystems that make up each rider’s journey through the Big Apple. READ MORE »
February 13, 2020 | Luis Perez Cortes | Design |
The good. The bad. The designed.
One day, while I was walking to my office at Arizona State University, I noticed a solar-powered cellphone charging station. As soon as I noticed it, I thought “these are a good idea”. Having a place for anyone to charge their phones is amazing, especi … READ MORE »
February 5, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design |
From Artifacts to Culture, My Journey through Design: Keynote at IDC, School of Design
Design is core to my identity, to who I am. Education is the space within which I function but I try to approach everything I do as a designer. This was not always the case. READ MORE »
February 4, 2020 | Melissa Warr | Artifacts, Design |
Fixing Clocks, Negotiating Systems: Yes, And…
In which Melissa summons the courage to critique her doctoral advisor’s post, asserting that over-simplification of artifacts leads to many of the design problems in education that we are trying to avoid. READ MORE »
January 24, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design |
Design: Fixing Clocks | Negotiating Systems
Artifacts and systems have different levels of complexity and designing them require a different set of skills. READ MORE »
January 17, 2020 | Steven Weiner | Design |
The Flea Circus Fallacy: Jurassic Park and the Perils of Ecological Design
What’s the difference between designing living systems and designing technical artifacts? “Life finds a way” to complexify things… READ MORE »