In “What Counts as Design?” students will have an introduction to the concept of design as a broad, multidisciplinary, and ultimately common action in their everyday lives. From creating a playlist, to developing a recipe for chocolate chip cookies, to planning a UX mobile prototype, design happens everywhere.
Subject area: Understanding design
Activity types: Affinity grouping, Brainstorming, Discussion
In “Good Designers do “X”: Affinity Grouping”, students will have the opportunity to broadly analyze expert designers’ ideas about what good designers do and reflect on the patterns that they see.
Subject area: Design expertise, design awareness, design process
Activity type: Affinity grouping, Discussion
In “Good Designers do “X”: Connecting Design and Teamwork”, students will identify and make connections between Good Designers do “X” statements and conceptual frameworks of teamwork and team dynamics. We have three frameworks here, but we encourage you to also apply any of your own frameworks that you find or develop.
Subject area: Design awareness, Design process, Design expertise, Teamwork
Activity type: Discussion
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