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The Future of Design Education is... No Design Education. Urgently Wanted: The Design Driven Manager. The potential of Design Thinking becomes more and more visible because organizations like Apple, Coca-Cola, IBM, Nike en Proctor & Gamble not only show overtly that they use it, but start showing significant results.

Urgently Wanted: The Design Driven Manager

They outperformed their peers in the last decade with 219%, measured by the Design Value Index (assessment by Design Management Institute). Design Thinking is a people-oriented, prototype driven process for innovation. It is a useful approach to get to understand and solve complex challenges where the classic, analytic methodologies fall short. Design Philosophy Driving Breakthrough Innovation. There are processes, methods and tools that make our ability to create predictable, reliable and repeatable.

Design Philosophy Driving Breakthrough Innovation

However, when breakthrough innovation is called for, might an appropriate design philosophy be more useful? Chris Bangle Associates continues to frame and solve design and innovation challenges for global design-centric corporations. Chris became well known for breakthrough innovation challenges through his decades of experience in the automotive industry and at a recent presentation at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, he shared his approach to developing breakthrough products, services and experiences. This is the third and final article in this series. Classrooms That Inspire The 4 Cs. Recently, our elementary school designed a Learning Commons.

Classrooms That Inspire The 4 Cs

The Learning Commons is an extension of the media center. We remodeled a traditional computer lab, with straight rows and desks. School staff replaced the desks and computers with student friendly furniture, carpet, a futon, neon signs, and a space that encourages the 4 Cs (Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, and Creativity). 15 Web Design Tools to Try in 2016.

If you are the owner of a business and website, or you are planning to be in the near future, there are various web design tools that you need to be using that will help you to succeed.

15 Web Design Tools to Try in 2016

These tools are easy and often quite inexpensive to use, and they are going to ensure that you have everything you need to run a successful business. Here are the top 15 web design tools that you need to try in 2016. Making Learning Easier by Design — Google Design. Making Learning Easy by Design How Google’s Primer team approached UX How can design make learning feel like less of a chore?

Making Learning Easier by Design — Google Design

It’s not as easy as it sounds. Flat out, people usually won’t go out of their way to learn something new. Research shows that only 3% of adults in the U.S. spend time learning during their day.¹ Design Tools. Why Experience Design is The Next Big Thing [Op-Ed] A scary article about the death of web design swept through the internet this summer making the web design community ponder about the future of the industry.

Why Experience Design is The Next Big Thing [Op-Ed]

There were many different responses from different quarters that claimed that web design is not dead, just changing a little more quickly than other industries. Change is real, and sustainable businesses need to move forward and swim with the stream. In this post we will take a glance at the changes that indicate the necessity of switching the way how we think about and do design. New Tech Require a Broader Approach. 20 Classroom Setups That Promote Thinking.

20 Classroom Setups That Promote Thinking by TeachThought Staff This is part 1 in our #iteachthought campaign.

20 Classroom Setups That Promote Thinking

This is our equivalent to “back to school,” and is intended to help you focus in the 2015-2016 school year on taking a thoughtful approach to your craft as a teacher. Among these shifts we’ll talk about is turning our focus from content and teaching to thinkers and thinking. 20 Classroom Setups That Promote Thinking.

Flexible Classrooms: Providing the Learning Environment That Kids Need. Providing the Learning Environment That Kids Need Flexible classrooms give students a choice in what kind of learning space works best for them, and help them to work collaboratively, communicate, and engage in critical thinking.

Flexible Classrooms: Providing the Learning Environment That Kids Need

Since implementing flexible classrooms, Albemarle County Public Schools have noticed that: Their students' grades have improved.Their students seem happier and more engaged.Their students are participating more and having more invigorating conversations. Giving Students a Choice in How They Learn. Businessinsider. When computers entered the mainstream, some art schools abandoned drawing classes to make time for the new software they had to teach.

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The arrival of state-of-the-art programs prompted backlash among those who’d argued for years that drawing is integral to literacy. “When you draw an object, the mind becomes deeply, intensely attentive,” says the designer Milton Glaser, an author of a 2008 monograph titled Drawing Is Thinking. 5 IT Skills You'll Need as the Internet of Things Becomes a Reality. People are usually looking forward to the next big technological revolution.

5 IT Skills You'll Need as the Internet of Things Becomes a Reality

There’s always a great deal of excitement as we envision what the world will look like in the future and the role technology will play in that world. Most experts agree that if you want to identify the next thing that will transform the world we live in, look no further than the Internet of Things (IoT). The idea is to have items and objects with embedded sensors that connect to the web, enabling them to communicate with us and each other, making for a more convenient, always connected lifestyle. In fact, the IoT has already begun, but true mainstream penetration likely won’t be achieved until 2020. Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Design — Hackerpreneur magazine. Uncover the jobs the product is hired for A product has a core user experience, which is basically the reason the product exists. It fulfills a need or solves a problem people have.

By that, it becomes meaningful and provides a certain value. If the problem is non-existant, or the solution doesn’t fit to the problem, the product becomes meaningless and people won’t use the product; which in turn leads to the downfall of the product. Wrong solutions can be fixed, but non-existant problems aren’t adjustable at all. The odd psychology of the compassionate crowd – Michael Bond. There’s nothing like a riot to bring out the amateur psychologist in all of us. Consider what happened in August 2011, after police killed Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old man from the London suburb of Tottenham. Thousands took to the streets of London and other English towns in the UK’s worst outbreak of civil unrest in a generation.

When police finally restored order after some six days of violence and vandalism, everyone from the Prime Minister David Cameron to newspaper columnists of every political persuasion denounced the mindless madness, incredulous that a single killing, horrific as it was, could spark the conflagration at hand. How to harness the power of design thinking. By Theo Chapman Design thinking has become the hot new trend that its proponents argue is the secret to successful business performance. Its adherents say design thinking allows a business to attain a kind of nirvana where it is able to routinely produce innovations to products, services or business systems that are of value to customers. But just like any new school of thought, even those who evangelise it don’t necessarily have a clear view of what it is, or how to do it. The problem with design thinking, says Sam Bucolo, director of the Design Innovation Research Centre at University of Technology, Sydney, is that companies send their staff on three-day Design Thinking workshops without putting in place the structures that are needed if great ideas are to become products and services.

If the business process doesn’t change that newly stimulated creativity energy simply gets stifled. How a Bigger Purpose Can Motivate Students to Learn. A few years ago, psychologist David Yeager and his colleagues noticed something interesting while interviewing high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area about their hopes, dreams and life goals. It was no surprise that students often said that making money, attaining fame or pursuing a career that they enjoyed were important to them. But many of them also spoke of additionally wanting to make a positive impact on their community or society — such as by becoming a doctor to take care of people, or a pastor who “makes a difference.”

10 Practical Uses for Augmented Reality in the Classroom. Augmented reality is quickly becoming recognized as a useful tool in the classroom, and new technology is making it more accessible even for educators who’ve never used it before. However, as we often see with new ed tech, it’s not just a matter of having the tools available and knowing how to work the devices involved. Uk.businessinsider. 7 Simple Ways To Make Your Kitchen Look Expensive. Of all the rooms in a house where decorative sleight of hand can have the biggest visual impact, the kitchen rules, says designer Elaine Griffin. "That's because kitchen cabinets come in standard sizes with standard door options," she adds. How Google Finally Got Design. It would have been crazy to say just a few years ago.

But today, Google produces better-designed software than any other tech behemoth. How To Practice Good Design. I love design and startup and I firmly believe magical companies emerge when these two meet, e.g. 10 Color Inspiration Secrets Only Designers Know About. “Color: what a deep and mysterious language!” [1] Specific hues can provoke different emotions, associations, and responses that affect how your brand is perceived. Put simply, color choices can make or break a design. In fact, research has shown that color can increase brand recognition (by up to 80%), memory, engagement with a design piece, text comprehension, among many others. Why Design? 11 Essential Elements of a Perfect Blog Design (a Data Driven Answer) Universal Design for Learning Visually Explained for Teachers.

Tony's Infopics. Design Tools. Lesson Design Tools. #saskedchat April 30, 2015. Social media design 101 - Holy Kaw! We all know visuals are the real stars of social media, so it’s key for social media marketers to be at the top of their game when it comes to creating graphics. Canva’s Anna Guerrero has the perfect beginner’s guide to getting it right on the major social networks to make 2015 your best-looking marketing year yet. Don’t forget to read to the end for an interactive tutorial! Optimise your designs for different social networks Maintaining your social media presence will have you posting on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google + and Linkedin on a regular basis. Posts with images on social media get a substantial amount more engagement than links, videos and text, so making sure they look their best is a critical part of your visual strategy.