Competencies

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As designers we love to create maps of everything (that are never correct or complete). Here is how we currently see how design competencies connect. Challenge us!

Latest Case Studies

  • Senses and Empathy
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    Senses and Empathy

    Tarmo Karhu Turku University of Applied Sciences, Design Engineering, 1st year In a user-centered design course, students were given an exercise to better understand their experiences of different senses and develop their capacity for empathy. Students were being organized in three-person groups and instructed to plan and visualize a route that takes them around differentContinue…

  • The Neighbourhood of Feelings
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    The Neighbourhood of Feelings

    Mirentxu Sardina EASD Castello (Spain) Interior Design In interior design projects, our students get into trouble by getting emotionally involved or by having conceptual arguments.  In response, I have developed an exercise that I call ‘the neighborhood of feelings’, an introduction to the emotional aspects of interior design and an exercise in getting to knowContinue…

  • Stakeholder Mapping
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    Stakeholder Mapping

    In a two-semester long capstone project students define, develop and deliver a full design project. Once students have defined the project aim, they are asked to identify all the stakeholders whose needs and interests must be considered in the research phase of the project.  This is often challenging for the  students as they have focusedContinue…

  • Triple P.O.V. Storyboarding
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    Triple P.O.V. Storyboarding

    Students are working on a project that involves multiple stakeholders, whose needs must all be taken into consideration after having created service design concepts.  To stimulate students to think through different points of view, they are asked to create three storyboards, each for the most important stakeholders. Students are asked to first start with theContinue…

  • Service Diagramming
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    Service Diagramming

    In a twelve-week Service Design course, students are developing ideas that involve multiple touch points, channels, platforms and interactions. To enable students to grasp, articulate and comprehend this inherent complexity, they are instructed in creating a service diagram. This is challenging because to this date, these students have only been trained to draw singular products/interactionsContinue…

  • Cumulus Kolding

    Cumulus Kolding

    Job, John and Mo-Ling took the opportunity presented at Cumulus Kolding to present a paper, and to run a participative workshop designed to develop the design competency framework we spoke about at Cumulus Hong Kong. Our intentions were to build an international network of interested design educators, deepen our understanding of how the Design CompetencyContinue…

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“A project brief on design UI for the skin gave students a sensory awareness of how material properties interact with the skin.”

Prof. Job Rutgers
OCAD University, Experience design