In order to understand the current stage of design education and to be able to plan its future and steer it towards new directions with larger and more positive impact we need to understand its origins and the factors that have influenced its evolution into what we know today as design education.
This compendium is the result of a collaboration between UK based DATA together with Loughborough University's Design Education Research Group. It showcases unique and key papers from critical thinkers from the 70's and 80's such as British mechanical engineer and later Professor of Design Research at the Royal College of Art Bruce Archer CBE and former RCA and Loughborough University Professor Phil Roberts.
"We need service design as providers and users (and ambitious designers!)"
London based service designer Nick Marsh (@choosenick) has over five years expertise on service design and innovation. Through his work at Engine Service Design, The Design Council and Sidekick Studios Marsh has forged a great body of knowledge and insights of the practice of service design.
In this presentation from Talk & Workshop, HyperIsland in 2007, Marsh explores the necessity of new ways of approaching the development of both commercial and public services. His take on the requirements to build a strong discipline and good service design practitioners is sharp and direct, a refreshing approach if we look at the traditional theory based service development from where our current services come from.
This type of service design is what we need... NOW.
For more insightful articles and blogposts visit ChooseNick. Also if you are London based you might be interested in attending to the monthly Service Design Drinks, alternatively you can look up when and where this meetings take place in other cities.
British Industrial Designer & Engineer Dan Lockton has recently finished designing a toolkit to help designers seeking to influence and modify positively users' behaviour through design. Italy based design blog Putting People First, gives access to the finished toolkit which takes form of a set of 101 cards grouped in eight categories according to different lenses or fields of research that provide different perspectives on behaviour change.
The intention is that the cards are useful at the idea generation stage of the design process, helping designers, clients and – perhaps most importantly – potential users themselves explore behaviour change concepts from a number of disciplines, and think about how they might relate to the problem at hand. Judging by the impact of earlier iterations, the cards could also be useful in stakeholder workshops, and design / technology / computer science education.
