Advanced Topics in Design Thinking, Illustrated Edition

In a national design conference, my old design professor got up on stage and pronounced to a bunch of budding young designers “Design is Dead!”. A few weeks later in class, despite the Dean stating he was under contract, he told us he was leaving the program for a b-school in the Mid-West. He founded the design program based on the notion that design is the rhetoric of things, and that unlike art, design could be taught systematically. This is an attempt to encapsulate everything I learned in the most digestible format I could think of (with some lessons I’ve learned since).

Volume 1. On Data

The first few chapters will help create a foundation for how designers see the world. How, just because not everything can be measured, everything can include meaning useful to designers when dreaming of a new world.

Chapter 1. Degrees of Freedom