Design Management

Debate: How to Brainstorm Effectively

In my recent post Susan Cain: The pow­er of intro­verts, I men­tioned that I agreed with Cain’s view on brain­storm­ing — that it is ben­e­fi­cial to allow par­tic­i­pants to brain­storm on their own before dis­cussing ideas in a group set­ting. Then last week I came across more arti­cles dis­cussing the pro­ce­dure of brain­storm­ing.

Infographic Design Rules

Late­ly, I’ve come across quite a few arti­cles about info­graph­ic design — deter­min­ing whether or not it is overused and dis­cussing prop­er usage. Here are two arti­cles and my favorite take­aways: The Do’s And Don’ts Of Info­graph­ic Design from Smash­ing Mag­a­zine. Show, Don’t Tell — A rule of cin­e­ma is to show, don’t tell. The […]

Synectics & Pughsion™

Synec­tics Class Exer­cise As I’m fin­ish­ing up with an online Finan­cial Man­age­ment class that is all num­bers, I was just think­ing how I’d rather be facil­i­tat­ing cre­ative think­ing right now. Then I start­ed think­ing back about a pre­sen­ta­tion my for­mer class­mate Rebec­ca Mahl and I did on the prob­lem solv­ing method­ol­o­gy synec­tics, as well as […]

Ethnographic Study of Art Supply Buying Habits

Overview The pur­pose of this study was to exam­ine the habits of dorm-dwelling stu­dents in search of art/design sup­plies in order to under­stand how impor­tant loca­tion is in rela­tion to price and oth­er con­trib­u­tors to the idea of val­ue. We explored oppor­tu­ni­ties that one store in Savan­nah may have in over­com­ing the dis­ad­van­tage of prox­im­i­ty […]

Recycling in Savannah

How to Moti­vate Peo­ple to Cre­ate Bet­ter Recy­cling Habits through Aware­ness, Edu­ca­tion and Con­ve­nience Overview For my final project in the Design Man­age­ment pro­gram at SCAD, I want­ed to take a clos­er look at recy­cling in Savan­nah, GA. The pur­pose of my study was to reveal a bet­ter way to encour­age and enable recy­cling for […]

Building a New Brand

Building a New Brand

Set­ting the Foun­da­tion With my back­ground in Graph­ic Design, I have designed visu­al iden­ti­ties for exist­ing brands, but I’ve nev­er had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to devel­op the frame­work for a new brand from the ground up. At SCAD, I was able to work with five oth­er stu­dents from dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines in a spon­sored col­lab­o­ra­tive design class […]

Texting While Driving Infographics

Idea Visu­al­iza­tion The first phase of this research project involved col­lect­ing var­i­ous sta­tis­tics relat­ed to tex­ting while dri­ving. After rec­og­niz­ing pat­terns in the data, our team clas­si­fied the infor­ma­tion into seman­ti­cal­ly appro­pri­ate visu­al mod­els that show rela­tion­ships with mul­ti­vari­ate data. These visu­al mod­els were pre­sent­ed in a poster.

Working Title Design Launch

Knowledge Sharing Network

Cur­rent­ly, Design Man­age­ment is rep­re­sent­ed so incon­sis­tent­ly that there is both an oppor­tu­ni­ty and a need for Design Man­agers to define our field and chart a course for the pro­fes­sion. The devel­op­ment of a cen­tral net­work enti­ty is the per­fect way to allow Design Man­agers to share their knowl­edge, projects and expe­ri­ences. This forum of […]

Web Design & Videos

Tay­lor-Made Deep Creek Vaca­tions Web­site Design Tay­lor-Made Deep Creek Vaca­tions was a start-up rental prop­er­ty man­age­ment busi­ness when I began work­ing on their site as a free­lance job in Feb­ru­ary 2008. I designed comps for all the pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary pages, then built out the entire site. The com­pa­ny grew very quick­ly, and I main­tained […]

Facilitating Creative Thinking

Facil­i­tat­ing the Cre­ation and Eval­u­a­tion of Video Projects in Edu­ca­tion Back­ground We live in a media sat­u­rat­ed soci­ety where media affects the way that we inter­act with and under­stand the world around us. While the con­cept of media lit­er­a­cy has been around since the ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry, its only in the past 10 years that […]