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Digital threat or design opportunity? Embracing the creative challenges of disruptive technologies

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Discussions around AI continue upwards and onwards. For designers, the challenges of AI and automation are increasingly acute. But are they a threat or an opportunity?

CommDesignAcademic Communication & graphic design, Design & AI, Design issues, Design research 20 May 20232 Dec 2023

Design interview methods: helping to tell the story

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Some reflections on design interview methods and creative practice resesarch.

CommDesignAcademic Design methods & methodology, Design research 29 Apr 202329 Apr 2023

Graphic design research, poetry & ChatGPT

Passing an academic design research abstract through Chat GPT and musing on the outcomes.

CommDesignAcademic Communication & graphic design, Design & AI 22 Apr 202313 Apr 2024

Re-thinking Design Thinking – time to take some responsibility?

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Design Thinking has been around for a while, but remains under-critiqued. This recently published article challenges the hegemony of Design Thinking education, offering options for its future dissemination.

CommDesignAcademic Communication & graphic design, Design issues, Design methods & methodology, Design research 23 Dec 202213 Apr 2024

The unbearable irrelevance of three design concepts

Industry stakeholders and clients often expect three design concepts as part of designers' responses to a creative brief. What's that all about?

CommDesignAcademic Communication & graphic design, Design issues, Design research 17 Nov 202221 Jan 2023

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    Whatever happened to design by committee & when did designers start welcoming stakeholder participation anyway?
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