During which I appear to compare GenAI to a cement mixer, while presenting our collaborative paper on design briefs, at www.lxd2025.com

During which I appear to compare GenAI to a cement mixer, while presenting our collaborative paper on design briefs, at www.lxd2025.com

I’ve actually known clients that won’t hire designers who are too into coding - they felt that there was a lack of focus on aesthetics, creativity, and design.

Should architects learn carpentry & plumbing? Should MDs learn how to do physiotherapy? Designers have an understanding of the constraints the design within - print & interaction. But coding is a specific function - some designers code, many don’t. Just as most never operated a printing press.

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My DRS paper on graphic design and AI has just passed 15,000 downloads | dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conferen...

My DRS paper on graphic design and AI has just passed 15,000 downloads | dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conferen...

Me please.

My article ‘Looking at things strangely: Defamiliarisation as a design approach for media literacy education’, speculates how practices drawn from graphic design might be repurposed as educational tools for media literacy | #designresearch #designthinking

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Our article from a couple of months ago: “Design Thinking: Standing on the Shoulders of… Graphic Design” | #designthinking #designresearch

Hello. Design researcher here.

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Today it is a commonplace that the automobile represents freedom. But to many Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.

A look back at when cars didn't own the road, and how we got here: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-cities-...

Join us for the Responsible Design Thinking Symposium – rethinking design thinking education | 18-20 September 2023 | @ University of Sydney, 148 City Road, Darlington NSW 2006.

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