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New paper: We argue that ’Neodesign’ – the procedural, sandboxed version of design that has emerged in the past 20 years – threatens the very qualities that made design valuable in the first place: craft, imagination, & playfulness | hdl.handle.net/2123/34531 | #designresearch #criticaldesign

Man at lectern talking to room of people, with slide showing cement mixer on screen.

Man at lectern talking to room of people, with slide on screen headed ‘case studies and practices’

During which I appear to compare GenAI to a cement mixer, while presenting our collaborative paper on design briefs, at www.lxd2025.com

Man at lectern talking to room of people, with slide showing cement mixer on screen.

Man at lectern talking to room of people, with slide on screen headed ‘case studies and practices’

During which I appear to compare GenAI to a cement mixer, while presenting our collaborative paper on design briefs, at www.lxd2025.com

I’ve actually known clients that won’t hire designers who are too into coding - they felt that there was a lack of focus on aesthetics, creativity, and design.

Should architects learn carpentry & plumbing? Should MDs learn how to do physiotherapy? Designers have an understanding of the constraints the design within - print & interaction. But coding is a specific function - some designers code, many don’t. Just as most never operated a printing press.

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Screenshot of conference paper titled “Graphic design and artificial intelligence: Interdisciplinary challenges for designers in the search for research collaboration”

My DRS paper on graphic design and AI has just passed 15,000 downloads | dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conferen...

Screenshot of conference paper titled “Graphic design and artificial intelligence: Interdisciplinary challenges for designers in the search for research collaboration”

My DRS paper on graphic design and AI has just passed 15,000 downloads | dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conferen...

Me please.

Looking at things strangely: Defamiliarisation as a design approach for media literacy education Design methods have long been proposed as educational devices and, increasingly, as approaches for engaging with societal issues. While media, cultural and political narratives continue to debate b...

My article ‘Looking at things strangely: Defamiliarisation as a design approach for media literacy education’, speculates how practices drawn from graphic design might be repurposed as educational tools for media literacy | #designresearch #designthinking

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Design Thinking: Standing on the Shoulders of… Graphic Design! Abstract. Prominent design discourse or advocacy in the domain of “design thinking” rarely depicts graphic design consistently or with sufficient rigor and understanding about the field's role in the ...

Our article from a couple of months ago: “Design Thinking: Standing on the Shoulders of… Graphic Design” | #designthinking #designresearch

Hello. Design researcher here.

Hello

When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders To many urban Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.

Today it is a commonplace that the automobile represents freedom. But to many Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.

A look back at when cars didn't own the road, and how we got here: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-cities-...

Responsible Design Thinking Symposium | Humanitix Responsible Design Thinking Symposium, Hosted at Tin Sheds Gallery, 148 City Rd, Darlington NSW 2008, Australia, Mon 18th Sep 2023, 10:00 am - Wed 20th Sep 2023, 6:00 pm AEST. Tickets are free. Only o...

Join us for the Responsible Design Thinking Symposium – rethinking design thinking education | 18-20 September 2023 | @ University of Sydney, 148 City Road, Darlington NSW 2006.

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