Why do you design?
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- jfletcher0
So you start a thread and don't even check in after a day? Come on... HyperIsland should teach you some follow up. I think Sureshot and I are pretty close, maybe we'll stop by.
1. I started as an arts student and a friend told me he was going to a design school and I should check it out. So I applied and boom... but growing up I didn't know what a designer was or had no desire to be one, I was just lucky to find a career that matched my random traits.
2. Nothing... to learn what design was...?
3. There are two questions here, this is unfair.
3a. The ability to solve problems (let's say human problems... but it could be anything). Utilizing empathy, listening, and other words you can read on Don Norman books.
3b. I'm not sure if design is significant in how it's viewed now, but the type of critical thinking represented a different type of education, which is a lot more interesting to be. Being inductive, deductive, abductive, and all other "ives" to help solve problems that arise around the world. The type of thinking and what it represents if a lot more interesting to me than "what design means right now"... in that case this week it means people bitching about iOS7.
4. hmmm, I could have used better teachers my 2nd and 3rd year. Besides that I think more rigor on the history of design, the type of critical thinking that should happen during a design problem. Then really having teachers critique and pull apart the thinking instead of just critiquing one final piece of work. That doesn't help students address issues that happen during the process...
I didn't proof read this, sorry for poor grammar et...