Changing Design Education for the 21st Century

Designers are entrusted with increasingly complex and impactful challenges. However, the current system of design education does not always prepare students for these challenges. When we examine what and how our system teaches young designers, we discover that the most valuable elements of the designer’s perspective and process are seldom taught. Instead, some designers grow beyond their education through their experience working in industry, essentially learning by accident. Many design programs still maintain an insular perspective and an inefficient mechanism of tacit knowledge transfer. Meanwhile, skills for developing creative solutions to complex problems are increasingly essential. Organizations are…

• IB
  International Business Machines Corporation
• UO
  University of California Berkeley
• UO
  University of Cincinnati
• UO
  University of Alberta
• HL
  Hochschule Luzern
• UO
  University of California, San Diego