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Design Education for the New Economy : Teaching Mid-career Masters Students Hybrid Design Methods to Solve Wicked Problems
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Yap, Leong |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | This paper argues that in an increasingly complex technological and sociocultural environment, designers have to have both explicit and tacit knowledge to enable them to prioritise critical problems and opportunities in order to judiciously propose solutions. Ideal design education must instill in its graduates the ability to carry out data capture, analysis, synthesis, ideation, design and evaluation of system complexity, not only to answer materialistic and technical questions, but also to master human behavioural sciences. This would enable them to transform technology into empirical and experiential meanings that would make products safer, functional, usable and even pleasurable. Designers who are knowledgeable and armed with a hybrid ‘logic-emotion’ methodology can contribute as scientist, designer, as well as change-agent, while playing a vital role in solving ‘wicked’ problems, creating value, designing and ensuring successful functionality, usability and viability of systems, products, services and brand innovations. The main focus of this paper is a five-year case study of a Master of Design programme to nurture a range of mid-career designers from across the creative industries with these attributes. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.designedasia.com/2012/Full_Papers/Design%20Education%20for%20the%20New%20Economy.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
