Teaching: Semester 2, 2014

So, I figured out what I will be teaching next semester: This is what it looks like:

DES134 Introduction to Interaction Design Techniques

I wrote this module but I have not taught it before: it will cover the following items: Story structures, storyboards, icon design, information design, data, information, decision. This module is with Year 1 Design students and sounds like fun.

DES320 User Centered Design.

This one is for Year 2 Design students. This is a project based module. I anticipate that we will get some new product and or service inventions developed here. I am going to squeeze in something about Roy Stringers Navihedra also. Exciting.

DES809 Design Entrepreneurship Awareness

This is a Masters of Design Module. The module is a series of 5 lectures including: Anto and Rob’s Gold Rush story and Intercept the Strategic Vector. There is a day of Elevator Pitches also.

I will be supervising a few BDes final years, don’t know who or how many yet. I also have a two MDes supervison students. That’s it, should be a busy 12 weeks. Starting, 27 Jan.

Causeway City – drawing project

Brief: Create an A2 line drawing of a city imagined on a landscape of huge Giants Causeway land formations.

This is a drawing challenge and a design challenge. Here are some items to consider:

•Basic drawing of landscape – observation of causeway
•Architecture, design and structure of city
•Composition of picture
•Perspective
•Fineness of drawing
•Use of sources
•Ambition vs Ability
•Level of work – amount of hours
•Determination and true grit
•Willingness to win

Here is the class group from 2013 and some of their drawings

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7 reasons why designers draw!

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To get an idea that is in your head out of your head so that you can think of another idea.

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To store an idea so that you can refer to it later.
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To help resolve a partially formed idea. Ideas are often incomplete – drawing the incomplete idea out helps to resolve the unfinished parts of the idea. By putting down what you know you can fill in the blanks.
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To get another idea. Once an idea is drawn its presence on paper helps to evoke another idea.

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To act as a guide while you are manufacturing the artefact.section

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To show other people to get their help and viewpoints about your idea.archery

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To maintain a record of ideas enabling you to understand your own idea developmental progress.

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