After yesterdays chat with Dan Hill, the EdDirections workshop, and werock event last night, I’ve been thinking about how design moves out of the studio and into the cubes & labs.
Simon & Buchanan think it always has, but one thing I keep seeing is a ‘resistance’ to using the word “design”.
I think there are a number of reasons for this, one of them being that many people don’t think they ‘do’ design. It’s about this thought that I’ve been thinkin’…
One workshop participant described two courses they have introduced in an IT program. Both courses gave students a grounding in conceptual foundations of programming and the web, and the program saw an immediate increase in the number of students who passed subsequent courses.
To me, this sounds a lot like teaching students to be better designers by teaching them how to ‘read’ as well as ‘write’.
Design is a literacy, and we experience its literature every day.
