Bing Crosby, Design, and Meaning Making
November 12, 2021 | Melissa Warr | Design |
November 12, 2021 | Melissa Warr | Design |
Bing Crosby, Design, and Meaning Making
Melissa offers her own mix of mixtapes, Bing Crosby, kindergarteners, seatbelts, learning and, of course, design.
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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 »
January 8, 2020 | Luis Perez Cortes and Kevin Close | Case Studies, Experiences |
Designing experience: A Case Study of Disneyland’s Lines
Some things we design are intangible. Disney’s Imagineers took a universal experience–standing in line–and re-mixed it to fit in the happiest (?) place on Earth. READ MORE »
December 21, 2019 | Kevin Close | Design, Q&A |
Why Is It So Hard To Define Design? Holiday Edition
It’s the holiday season, so get ready to justify your interest in ‘design’ to grandma. “Listen, grandma, design is hard to define…” READ MORE »