“What is your definition of ‘Design,’ Monsieur Eames?”
As I stared at those words on a wall in the Oakland Museum of California, it was hard to pull my focus away from the room of TV screens behind me. On the screens, the…
This class has been a interesting and unique learning experience for me. Coming in, I had little expectation of what this would be like since it was my first quarter here at Stanford. I had taken a class similar to CS 147 at Cornell though, where…
I still remember how in class 2A, we had to write down on a sticky note any topic in electoral politics that we were interested in further exploring. I felt lost because I personally don’t know much about politics and it’s such a big topic to try to…
Intro
I thoroughly enjoyed this class and I felt like I learned a lot. The class effectively taught that there are multiple mediums in which a concept can be presented and taught for the purposes of understanding. From the explorable explainer to the website to…
A Class Reflection Essay
Eric Rawn—CS247i—Dec 10, 2019
In my mind, this class had a rather succinct problem statement: “The world is an endlessly nuanced and complex place — how do we get people to understand…
I would like to start out this reflection by going into the main learnings that I feel stuck with me from this class as well as some random thoughts on things that I really liked. Then from there, I’ll talk a little bit about things that I…
Introduction
In taking Design for Understanding, my goal was to learn techniques I could use to break down complex topics into sticky, digestible bits of information. I’ve seen so often how the “curse of knowledge” in any field hinders…
