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Thinking About Design Thinking
A series on how Designers think about “x” as taught by Cameron Tonkinwise. *Work in Progress
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9. About Responsibility
To wrap up our discussions on Design Thinking I want to talk about responsibility. The good intentions of a Designer are still dangerous…
Alex Tsai
Dec 6, 2016
8. About Infrastructures
We discussed practices in the previous unit using the example of how cars were made possible by a change in the infrastructure within…
Alex Tsai
Dec 6, 2016
7. About Practices
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…
Alex Tsai
Dec 6, 2016
6. About Taste
There are many who view Design as no more than aesthetics, applied artists in a sense. There are others who describe Design as Design…
Alex Tsai
Dec 6, 2016
4. About Affordances
My Design professor describes understanding affordances as the difference between going from thinking about Design to Designing. Different…
Alex Tsai
Dec 6, 2016
3. About Reflection
I consider the practice of reflection to be central to my own identity as a Designer. It is the habit that has contributed the most to my…
Alex Tsai
Dec 6, 2016
2. About Thinking
What makes Design Thinking any different than the thinking used in fields like computer science or math? To understand the difference we…
Alex Tsai
Dec 6, 2016
1. About Things
To understand the “artificial” let’s begin with the simplest definition and before expanding upon it.
Alex Tsai
Dec 6, 2016
0. About Being
People have described Design as problem solving, applied creativity, or a particular process. People have also tried describing it by…
Alex Tsai
Dec 6, 2016
5. About Personification
Design is concerned with complexity. There is enormous complexity in the ways things, both tangible and intangible, are parts of larger…
Alex Tsai
Nov 14, 2016
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