Different Flavors of Design Management

DMI News & Views — View­points — An insight into design man­age­ment edu­ca­tion in the UK: Lessons to be learned

A lot of peo­ple keep ask­ing me what I want to do when I grad­u­ate from SCAD, and I keep say­ing the same thing: “I’m not exact­ly sure what I want to do yet, but I have a gen­er­al idea. I want to have more of a lead­er­ship role in design and branch out to solve prob­lems beyond just the realm of graph­ic design.”

For any­one who is curi­ous, I found this great dia­gram that dis­plays the many areas of design man­age­ment, all encom­passed, of course, by design think­ing. The accom­pa­ny­ing arti­cle exam­ines design man­age­ment edu­ca­tion in the UK, par­tic­u­lar­ly focus­ing on the dichoto­my of the term design man­age­ment and how that has cre­at­ed hur­dles for the dis­ci­pline in the past. Read More

Marian Bantjes: Intricate beauty by design | Video on TED.com

Mar­i­an Ban­t­jes: Intri­cate beau­ty by design | Video on TED.com

In this video, Mar­i­an Ban­t­jes explains how she built her career by throw­ing her indi­vid­u­al­i­ty into projects – some­thing few design­ers get the chance to do on a reg­u­lar basis. Read More

Design Thinking: A Solution to Fracture-Critical Systems

“Design think­ing is prac­ti­cal. That’s its hall­mark. It’s not orna­men­tal at all. Design is fun­da­men­tal­ly tied to pro­duc­ing some­thing that’s use­ful. And that’s where the pro­to­typ­ing and the iter­a­tive process comes in. Design moves from think­ing to mak­ing to think­ing to mak­ing, in a con­tin­u­ous cycle.Design think­ing is also about opti­miz­ing. Design is the process of cre­at­ing solu­tions that address the great­est num­ber of issues—with the least num­ber of steps. It’s the ele­gant solu­tion. “– Tom Fish­er via DMI News & Views — View­points — Design Think­ing: A Solu­tion to Frac­ture-Crit­i­cal Sys­tems

I real­ly appre­ci­ate many aspects of this inter­view with Tom Fish­er because it touch­es upon mul­ti­ple sub­jects I have become pas­sion­ate about recent­ly. I am so tempt­ed to quote almost every­thing he says in this post, but I’ll lim­it it to this one. I high­ly rec­om­mend read­ing the inter­view in its entire­ty to see the scope of prob­lems design think­ing has the poten­tial to solve. Read More

What is this?

This blog is a place for me (Gretchen Chern) to gath­er all the arti­cles, videos, inter­views, books etc. that I find inspir­ing. I’m main­ly doing this for myself, as I am soon ven­tur­ing into the world of design man­age­ment. The process by which I used to gath­er this infor­ma­tion was to email myself inter­est­ing links, then leave the emails in my inbox for an unusu­al­ly long peri­od of time. Even­tu­al­ly I start­ed post­ing links to my face­book page, which was slight­ly more effi­cient, but still lack­ing. That is why I am start­ing this blog. I need a way to col­lect and orga­nize all my inspi­ra­tion in one loca­tion where it is eas­i­ly accessible.I’m still work­ing on the look and func­tion­al­i­ty of this site as I am new to Word­Press, but I’m anx­ious to get up and run­ning. I have come across a lot of inter­est­ing things recent­ly, so I am ready to start post­ing!

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Dis­cov­er what I’m all about, includ­ing my method­ol­o­gy and design process.