Design for Understanding: Electoral Politics

Understanding “Design for Understanding”

A reflection on CS247I: Design for Understanding at Stanford…

Design For Understanding — Class Reflection

“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…

Stanford CS 247I: Design for Understanding — A Reflection

Stanford CS 247I: Design for Understanding —…

Reflecting on CS 247I: Design for Understanding

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…

CS247i Final Reflection

Intro

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…

CS247I Class Reflection

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…

Explaining the Climate and Economy:

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…

CS247 Final Class Reflections

Intro

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…

CS 247I Class Final Reflection

Designing for Understanding Complexity