Latest Case Studies
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Fear & (C) loathing
Ellen McCartney California Inst. of the Arts, BFA 1 Experience Design & Production Design Year 1 n a class titled Fear and (C)loathing, students explore five topics that trigger emotional reactions, and those responses are being expressed throughout the creation of a dress. The topics they explore are War and Sports, Biological and Artificial, Spiritual,…
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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 different…
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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 know…
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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 focused…
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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 the…
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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/interactions…
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“Using role playing to experience ‘cultural specific expectations’ is a great way to teach students how to manage ‘global diversity.’”
Mo Ling Chui
LCC Course Leader Design Cultures
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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.”
Dr. John Fass
LCC Course Leader, MA UX Design
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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
