The Design of Currency

Product Design Fundamentals Blog— 01.25.2017

We were asked to critique a poorly designed product for our first blog post. I wanted to examine a product within a system so I decided to look into the product design of cash. Cash interests me because we interact…

To wrap up our discussions on Design Thinking I want to talk about responsibility. The good intentions of a Designer are still dangerous when they fail to think responsibly. Many of the past units discussed responsibility within its context. For example, the political nature of…

We discussed practices in the previous unit using the example of how cars were made possible by a change in the infrastructure within cities and across the country. For this unit let us dig more deeply into the infrastructure that we must accommodate with Design.

If one wanted to learn about the patterns of what people do and their lifestyles as Designers we need to learn about Practice Theory from sociologies. At a high level, Practice Theory is about understanding the relationship between what people do and the systems and infrastructures they exist…

There are many who view Design as no more than aesthetics, applied artists in a sense. There are others who describe Design as Design Thinking and a process of solving problem with nothing to do with aesthetics. There is another way to view Design, one that I would argue is more correct, that…