Design expertise activities enable students to dive through a wide range of ideas from experts in the field of design and engineering education. Surveying these concepts can help students think about what's important to themselves personally, and what they hope to achieve as designers.
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
In “Good Designers do “X”: Pick a Card”, students will have the opportunity to dive through expert designers’ ideas about what good designers do and reflect on the statements that resonate with them.
Subject area: Design expertise, design awareness, design process, reflection
Activity type: Discussion
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