A treasure trove of tech history goes online with the unveiling of the Nokia Design Archive
Aalto University launches the Nokia Design Archive, an online repository that charts the pioneering history of Finland’s legendary mobile phone manufacturer
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What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design?
“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize that while the terms are linked, they shouldn’t be confused. Diversity is about bringing more people to the table. Decolonization is about changing t
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?
An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.
Just Design
Being Dogmatic about Defining
Speculative Critical Design Future Fiction
The Sustained Two-Shot
What do you do when you’ve got two actors, a bunch of dialogue, and only enough time to get one camera angle? Consider one of the oldest tools in the filmmak...
Stanford revamped its design school for a new generation of designers
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Design Education Advisory Committee - DesignSingapore Council
The Design Education Advisory Committee (DEAC) calls for a ‘Future Design School’, where design thinking is part of everyday learning from primary school.
Conversation with Cameron Tonkinwise: Missions and Transition Design(ers)
This is a conversation between Professor Cameron Tonkinwise, and our Design & Futures Lead Oskar Stokholm Østergaard on design-driven missions, transition design, and the role of design and designers in radical societal change
Do you want to change within the existing system, or do you want to change the system? If you’re going to change the system, can you change the system by still using the same forms, the same organizations, the same language, or do you actually have to try to speak differently?
Organising Design (or why you need to care about spreadsheets)
About 10 years ago, I became an assessor for funding agencies. I have since worked for AHRC, Innovate UK, EIT and EU programmes to help them assess funding applications. As a result I spent a lot o…
Dan Hill on Strategic Design
Dan Hill is Director of the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne. He is a leader in Strategic Design, a mode of practice directed toward...
Web Design - The First 100 Years
Introducing public design
Andrew Knight, Head of UK Policy Design Community, invites designers to participate in the Public Design Review.
The absence of a common proposition divides rather than unites the design family, and it is the number one barrier to bootstrapping design in governments. We need a universal definition and proposition for design in the language of governments and ministries of finance.
The vanishing designer
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.