Integrating Emotional Attachment and Sustainability in Electronic Product Design
Current models for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) products encourage frequent product replacement with newer versions that offer only minor incremental improvements. This pattern, named planned obsolescence, diminishes user experience and
Alex Lobos, Callie W. Babbitt
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Developing ‘design minds’ for the 21st century through a public sector initiated online design education platform [PDF]
Education in the 21st century demands a model for understanding a new culture of learning in the face of\ud rapid change, open access data and geographical diversity.\ud Teachers no longer need to provide the latest information\ud because students ...
Roxburgh, Joanna +2 more
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Envisioning Futures of Design Education: An Exploratory Workshop with Design Educators [PDF]
The demand for innovation in the creative economy has seen the adoption and adaptation of design thinking and design methods into domains outside design, such as business management, education, healthcare, and engineering. Design thinking and methodologies are now considered useful for identifying, framing and solving complex, often wicked social ...
Singh, Sapna +2 more
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Post-anthropocentric discourses in design education: a wool-centric workshop [PDF]
This paper reflects on alternative approaches in design education and how it can shift to include current discourses of post-Anthropocentrism, through a review and reflections in current design education. While design is still considered a human-centered
Tarcan, Berilsu
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ED100: Shifting Paradigms in Design Education and Student Thinking at KAIST [PDF]
Organised by: Cranfield UniversityFreshman design courses offer a number of benefits to incoming students and are becoming increasingly popular in universities around the world.
Thompson, M. K.
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An ever-growing number of scholars are developing and applying competency frameworks in the context of sustainability education. Despite the strong interest, most of the research has ignored the varying meanings of competency, which can be interpreted as
Noora Jaakkola +5 more
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Requests from Companies and Requirements for Design Education in Brazil: where do they meet? [PDF]
In this paper, we study what companies request from applicants for graphic design positions in Brazil. Based on a document analysis of 371 job advertisements, we uncover 35 different types of requests which we structure in terms of (1) Design ...
Person, Oscar +10 more
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Current Perspectives of Design Thinking and Design Literacy
Design thinking has become a cornerstone of 21st-century education and is emphasized across both design and non-design disciplines. Studies have long criticized design thinking as ambiguous because it has diverse definitions and employs a range of ...
Derya Yorgancioglu +2 more
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Catena: Collaboration, Cohesion and Continuity in Design Thinking and Making
In the interests of enhanced collaborative methods of design thinking, design communication, representation and rapid ideation, this article examines how a series of related activities and events, ‘catenated’ together, or forming a ‘catena’1 of design ...
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Designerly Ways of Knowing in HCI Education: A Case Study of a Peer Community-Based Studio
Design methods and approaches are common within Human-Computer Interaction. And while design is recognized as a discipline with its own epistemology and pedagogy outside of HCI, there is a lot of work to be done in incorporating, facilitating, and ...
Mafalda Gamboa +3 more
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