Education for Design For Life
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1) Interaction design education requires learning about people through anthropology, ethnography, observation and participation. It also involves learning about information structures, activities, processes, and people's perception/cognition. 2) Early design education focuses on creativity, criticism of design work, and developing craft skills. Interaction design education builds on this with additional topics like information architecture, activity flow, and understanding technology's impact on complexity. 3) Becoming an interaction designer is a long-term process that requires passion, mentors, exploring multiple media and skills beyond traditional design like rapid prototyping, physical computing, and filmmaking. Practice, case studies, and having the right learning environment are also important.
Education for Design For Life
- 1. Education For Design For Life Dave Malouf Professor, Industrial Design & Interaction Design Savannah College of Art & Design @daveixd 1
- 2. Let’s learn about you Quem é você? 2
- 3. About me Father 3
- 5. Teacher 5
- 6. Community Builder 6
- 7. But how did I get here? Did I just use my iPhone as a navigator? (yes & no) 7
- 8. My Journey Do as I say, not as I do
- 9. Look Mom, I’m a Designer! In 1994 coder = designer 9
- 10. This ain’t right! Come to 1999 - 2003 10
- 11. Capoeira Eu so Angoleiro 11
- 12. Tog asks for respect! IxDA is born and I found my tribe.
- 13. Industrial Design Oh! so this is what design looks like 13
- 14. Playing catchup AND finding my own path 14
- 15. Again ... Don’t do as I do; do as I say ... 15
- 16. So now what? • What is the state of design? • What do you have to do? 16
- 17. Caveat I am an American! 17
- 18. Jump to the chase Everything has converged 18
- 19. It’s all here: Architecture Industrial Design Interior design Service Design Graphic Design Interaction Design 19
- 20. DaVinci is not real No 1 person could do this 20
- 21. It has been around awhile 21
- 22. This guy is kickin’ our asses 22
- 23. Wicked Problems 23
- 24. Social Networks 24
- 25. Distracted 25
- 26. Our focus is much simpler Just want to do my web site 26
- 27. Types of IxDs Each has its own needs and some are stages towards others. Web/Software Designers Hardware Designers System Designers Wicked Problem Solvers 27
- 28. All are people centric 28
- 30. Know culture Anthropology 30
- 32. Most of us are stuck here ... 32
- 33. We need to be talking 33
- 34. Out here! Observe, talk, interpret 34
- 35. Without thinking about this Data good, rigidness bad 35
- 36. All require creativity 36
- 37. Lots of ideas Interaction Designer’s weakness is in their lack of creative stamina 37
- 38. Where is our craft? It is NOT the wireframe 38
- 39. Envision the future 39
- 40. Prototype Code Produce Build 40
- 41. Play Try it & Let others try it too. 41
- 42. Tell Stories Envision Embodied Situations within Narratives 42
- 43. Sell! Sell! Sell! No one is just going to like your ideas, or believe you at face value. 43
- 44. Visual communication You CAN’T live without it! 44
- 45. So regardless of IxD type ... gotta know about people: individuals & groups gotta observe people: not just because you have to gotta be creative: sketch; volume is everything gotta envision the future: prototype & play gotta tell stories: narratives sell ideas & offer designs gotta be visual: visual communication wins 45
- 46. How do you learn all this? 46
- 47. Beats me! 47
- 48. It’s a marathon Everyone starts from a different place and takes a different path. 48
- 49. The young get to start fresh And like most youth start out sprinting 49
- 50. Bill Moggridge On Design Teaching & Learing 50
- 51. All creative exercise starts with these 3 things ... Criticism: Knowing what is right/wrong & why Craft: Ability to manifest yours or someone else ideas Creativity: Ability to conceive new ideas 51
- 52. Early Design Education Creativity: Think up stuff Criticism: Judge stuff Sketch Art History Visual Thinking Design History Craft: Make Stuff Context Production Knowledge Aesthetics Observation Foundation (Has its own craft) Not usually found in IxD programs Found in IxD, but not most other Design programs 52
- 53. Interaction Design 53
- 54. Besides general design ... Information Activity Structure Flow Relationships Process Content Procedure People Language Perception/Cognition rhetorics Ergonomics poetics Behavioral Economics semiotics Socio-cultural 54
- 55. What is interaction design? Interactivity? Technology management? Dialog aesthetics? Web? (the network)? 55
- 56. Try this ... Interaction Design is the attempt to use abductive processes towards elegant & beautiful solutions for helping people mitigate the increased critical mass of complexity caused by technology. The designer does this by imagining new futures inspired by insights gained through intentionally experiencing, describing, and analyzing specific contexts. 56
- 57. NOPE! That’s just design Just change “technology” for “culture”. 57
- 58. Was that always “design”? 58 I have come to believe that IxD is more a school of design than itʼs own discipline. That in the practice of every other major design discipline what we have learned through the creation of interaction design can be applied. This is not to say that IxD is everything but that IxD is everywhere. It is a tool to be wielded by every designer regardless of medium or connection to technology. and yet … It really isnʼt that simple.
- 59. Bill Verplank 59
- 60. Verplank translated Form to communicate what is possible Form to communicate what has happening/ed Form to communicate state & flow 60
- 61. It has to be also Designing what IS possible Creating understanding Designing flow 61
- 62. AND Knowing WHY! 62
- 63. What was that thing about foundation? 63
- 64. Usual designer skills Drawing Composition 2D 3D Basic theory Construction 64
- 65. The theoretical & critical material of the medium Exploring media Exploring properties GUI Time Tangible Metaphor Embedded Abstraction Spatial Motion Rhetorics Semiotics 65
- 66. Pratt Foundation Combines these issues Core to criticism 66
- 67. You need more... Top 6 non-traditional IxD skills every interaction designer needs: 67
- 68. Idea Visualization rapid idea communication 68
- 69. Information Visualization 69
- 70. Computer Programming virtual prototyping needs to be more than “click-through” 70
- 71. Model Making sketch models of the physical 71
- 72. Physical Computing Building tangible interactions 72
- 74. In 4 years?!? US standard length of bachelor’s degree (undergraduate). 74
- 75. As noted above, it’s a long race. Long after school. Hopefully you’ll have people applauding, too. 75
- 77. Exploration of multiple media 77
- 78. Evaluating case studies 78
- 79. Reading existing theory Testing it out 79
- 80. The right environment People to work with People to teach People to learn from 80
- 81. Get Mentors It is a lot of work to use a mentor 81
- 82. Have Heroes Be inspired! 82
- 83. Draw a map 83
- 84. Be Passionate! 84
- 85. Pet project(s) Don’t let them stall! 85 Andrei Herasimchuk - Build your blog
- 87. It is really up to you ... 87