Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Educational services
Designing for Stanford’s d-school
Creativity, design and business at Kellogg School of Management
Need proof that the business world is playing catch-up in regards to creativity, innovation and design? The prestigious Kellogg School of Management is hosting a four-day learning session on managing product design and development this month. Here’s the program content:…
Sir Ken Robinson on creativity and education [Business Week]
Education guru Sir Ken Robinson talks about the importance of nurturing innovative solutions in the classroom — indeed, in every aspect of modern life. Sir Ken Robinson, now a senior advisor to the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles,…
EU to challenge MIT with new institute [AP | CNN]
The European Union is to unveil plans Wednesday for the creation of a rival to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reflecting fears that academic standards are slipping further behind the United States and risk being overtaken by China and India.…
Interaction design in a glocal context
The Hong Kong School of Design MDes programme positions product and interaction design education between cultural identity, local relevance and global competitiveness. “The aim of the Master of Design programme is to equip students with knowledge in design at a…
Zollverein School of Management and Design
International professional development and training for professionals working in management and design. The Zollverein School of Management and Design is the only research and educational institute of its kind in Europe. The school was founded in 2004 and its first…
The ID-StudioLab at Delft Technical University
The ID-StudioLab of the TU Delft covers research in four areas: designing for the senses, designing and emotion, inspiration engineering and intelligence in products. The challenge of the ID-StudioLab is to shape the conditions for a satisfactory product experience. Traditionally,…
Recent Design Council publications
This morning I interviewed Richard Eisermann, Director of Design & Innovation at the UK Design Council, and you will read more about that soon. He pointed me to a number of interesting Design Council publications. They are all available for…
Towards a learner-centred education system
The British educational thinktank NESTA Futurelab argues that the logic of education systems should be reversed so that the system conforms to the learner, rather than the learner to the system. This is, according to them, the essence of personalisation,…
New report on educational media for babies, toddlers and preschoolers
In recent years, there has been a big increase in new electronic media products for very young children, including those as young as one month old. A driving force behind this new market is the advertising and package labeling that…
Putting people at the heart of public services
The British Government is working on a series of strategies to put an entirely different dynamic in place to drive the UK public services: one where the service will be driven not by the managers but by the user –…
How Europe fails its young [The Economist]
The Economist has just published a survey of higher education (which can be viewed without subscription) and argues in an editorial that the state of Europe’s higher education is a long-term threat to its competitiveness. Europe’s only chance of preserving…
Stanford d.school launches Ambidextrous magazine
Ambidextrous Magazine is the design journal of the nascent Stanford d.school. It is a magazine for the wider design community, which includes engineers and ethnographers, psychologists and philosophers. Rather than focusing on promoting product, Ambidextrous exposes the people and processes…
Design for learning [CNN]
To prepare students for an evolving information-based society, architects are designing innovative schools to support new models of teaching and learning. Read full story (Related story: Students at Roy Lee Walker Elementary School don’t just study textbooks to learn about…
The future of mobile technology: learning ‘on the run’? [NESTA Futurelab]
Mobile phones are used in Asia in strikingly innovative ways. In Japan, there have been stories of schoolgirls writing messages on scraps of paper, photographing them with their phones and then e-mailing them to friends. In Korea the third biggest…
Next-generation MBAs looking to Bangalore [International Herald Tribune]
Graduate students from top schools in the United States, Europe and Asia, most from master of business administration programs, are vying for internships at India’s biggest private companies. For many, outsourcing companies are the destinations of choice. Read full…
The social impact of gaming [The Economist]
Is it a new medium on a par with film and music, a valuable educational tool, a form of harmless fun or a digital menace that turns children into violent zombies? Video gaming is all these things, depending on whom…
Creativity that goes deep [Business Week]
Firms everywhere want to revolutionize themselves by turning design-oriented. Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as hiring a chief design officer and declaring design as your top corporate priority. To generate meaningful benefits from design, corporations will have to change in…
Ethiopia’s digital dream [The Guardian]
Ethiopia, one of Africa’s poorest countries, is spending one tenth of its GDP every year on IT. Over the next five years, the government plans to invest more than $100m (£56m) in public sector computers. It aims to equip hundreds…