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Short Videos on Design: Critical Reading

December 8, 2020

  1. Alternatives (2:19)
  2. How to lie with statistics
  3. Rhetoric
  4. Subtext
  5. Theoretical lenses
  6. Asking questions (5:36)

Short Videos on Design: Speculative Design

December 8, 2020

  1. Intro to speculative design (1:39)
  2. Chindogu
  3. Provocation
  4. Useless design
  5. Diagetic design
  6. A to B thru Z (1:32)

Short Videos on Design: Interface & Interaction Design

December 8, 2020

The Basics

  1. Attract, reward, inspire
  2. Telling your story
  3. Choosing your content
  4. The power of the hero image
  5. Call to action

Materialization

  1. Material Data (Part 1) (6:44)
  2. Material Representation (Part 2) (5:36)

Short Videos on Design: Creating

December 8, 2020

  1. 5 Es of experience (entice, enter, experience, exit, extend) (3:19)
  2. Creativity using SCAMPER (substitute, combine, adjust, modify, put to other uses, eliminate, rearrange) (1:30)
  3. SCAMPER: Combine (00:58)
  4. Universal design (3:33)
  5. 6 thinking hats of Edward de Bono (facts, emotions, benefits, ideas, planning, judgment) (1:22)
  6. Storyboarding (1:32)
  7. Graphic design basics: hierarchy (2:15)
  8. Graphic design basics: grids (1:47)
  9. Graphic design basics: Gestalt principles (2:45)
  10. Brainstorming (00:42)

Case Studies

  1. Mental Health During COVID19 (3:21)

Short Videos on Design: Understanding & Communicating

December 8, 2020

  1. Affinity diagrams, concept maps, mind maps, entity-relationship diagrams (3:40)
  2. SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) (2:42)
  3. Empathy maps (think, say, do, feel) (3:17)
  4. Personas and scenarios (2:15)
  5. Gantt charts (1:36)
  6. Value proposition statements (For X who are interested in Y, we offer Z, which provides A, that is unlike the competition’s B. We are C) (1:35)
  7. Feature, function, benefit sheets (1:31)
  8. 10 types of innovation (Configuration: Profit Model. Network. Structure. Process; Offering: Product Performance. Product System; Experience: Service. Channel. Brand. Customer Engagement) (1:39)
  9. Eras map (e.g. product trends, service trends, retail, activities, brands, cultural icons, cultural moments) (2:20)
  10. Testing (1:54)

Short Videos on Design: Data Collection

December 8, 2020

  1. 3 types of interviews (structured, semi-structured, unstructured) (3:25)
  2. Taking ethnographic fieldnotes with 3 column format (observations, emotions, interpretations) (3:09)
  3. Research prototyping (thinking through making, user study, modelling the domain) (2:49)
  4. Observation using POEMS (people, objects, environment, materials, systems) (2:21)
  5. Observation using AEIOU (activities, environments, interactions, objects, users) (3:14)
  6. Observations using 5 human factors (physical, cognitive, social, cultural, affective) (5:00)
  7. Gender data gap and the human factors (2:50)
  8. Diary studies (1:54)
  9. Narrative studies (1:30)
  10. Cultural probes (1:19)

Short Videos on Design: Introducing Design

December 8, 2020

  1. History of design approaches (styling, human-centred, participatory or co-design, post-human) (5:55)
  2. Types of design (1:08)
  3. Intro to design process models (2:03)
  4. 4-stage design process (research, analysis, synthesis, production) (1:14)
  5. 4-stage process including release (1:13)
  6. 6-stage design thinking process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, launch) (1:43)
  7. Double-diamond prototyping model (divergence, convergence) (1:40)
  8. 3 types of research (primary, secondary, tertiary) (2:18)
  9. Epistemologies of knowledge production (sequential, aggregative, discovery, exploratory expressive, generative) (3:03)

About Short Videos on Design

August 6, 2020

Dr. Stan Ruecker and I have created a series of free, short lectures on:

  • introducing design
  • data collection
  • understanding & communicating
  • creating
  • speculative design
  • interface & interaction design
  • critical reading

We have over 50 videos done at the moment, with more finished every day.

The videos are all available on Vimeo.

Health to you and your family.

Milena & Stan

LAST UPDATED: 8 December 2020

Mental Health During COVID19 Mini-Project

July 3, 2020

2020

Imagine that your brain is a jam jar. Just like a jar, it only has a limited amount of space for stress. When that space is filled—like it is for many people during a pandemic—the results can be serious.

“We are living in a pandemic” is meant to reduce the stigma associated with mental health, putting it in the context of our common experience of dealing with COVID19.

There are two versions of the poster. One version includes a list of supports specific to Alberta (Canada). The second has, instead, an editable field where you can add your own, local resources.

Please feel free to print, edit, and share!

Designed by Milena Radzikowska, 2020.

Meeting Notes Template

June 20, 2020

For all those online meetings in our near future. I’m particularly looking forward to using the emotional state indicator. Available in iPad and Print versions. Enjoy!

Design Journals

June 12, 2020

Journal ranking is a method, used in academia, to evaluate an academic journal’s impact and quality. Such rankings attempt to reflect the place of a journal within its field, the relative difficulty of being published in that journal, and the prestige associated with it. Scopus and ISI are two out of many abstract indexing databases. Scopus appears to have a much broader journal coverage for the Social Sciences and Humanities.

(up-to-date as of June 2020; all journal descriptions taken from that journal’s website)

Q1

Scopus

  • Psychological Review
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Design Issues
  • Design Studies
  • Journal of Marketing
  • Leonardo
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Journal of Performance and Art
  • Research Policy
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management

ISI

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Psychological Review
  • Research Policy
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • Journal of Marketing

Q2

Scopus

  • Human Factors
  • International Journal of Technology and Design Education
  • Journal of Mechanical Design
  • Mind, Culture, and Activity

ISI

  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Design Studies
  • Journal of Technical Design

Q3

Scopus

  • Applied Ergonomics
  • Creativity Research Journal
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
  • International Journal of Design

ISI

  • Creativity Research Journal
  • International Journal of Design
  • Mind, Culture, and Activity
  • International Journal of Technology and Design Education

Q4

Scopus

  • Journal of Design History
  • Journal of Design Research
  • Visible Language

ISI

  • International Journal of Art & Design Education

Artifact: Journal of Design Practice is focused on practice-based design research and aims to explore conditions, issues and tasks pertaining to design development in a broad sense. As an international design research journal, Artifact targets the global design research community with the aim of strengthening knowledge sharing and theory building of relevance to design practice. All articles and research notes are subject to double-blind peer-review. The journal is cross-disciplinary in scope and welcomes contributions from all fields of design research, including product design and visual communication, user experience, interface, and service design as well as design management and organization.

Design Issues provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design. Regular features include theoretical and critical articles by professional and scholarly contributors, extensive book and exhibition reviews, and visual sequences. Special guest-edited issues concentrate on particular themes, such as design history, human-computer interface, service design, organization design, design for development, and product design methodology.

Design Management Institute Journal (DMI:journal) is an academic journal devoted to articles and academic research exploring how design—in products, communication, and environments—is an essential strategic resource, a component of every organization that can be effectively managed to make important contributions to the bottom line and to long-term success.

Dialectic [Spanish and English] is a scholarly journal of thought leadership, education and practice in the discipline of visual communication design.

Diseña is a peer-reviewed, biannual, and bilingual publication by the Escuela de Diseño of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Diseña promotes research in all areas of Design. Its specific aim is to promote critical thought about methodologies, methods, practices, and tools of research and project work.

Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design.

Formy [Polish and some English]

Information Design Journal is a platform for discussing and improving the design, usability, and overall effectiveness of ‘content put into form’ — of verbal and visual messages shaped to meet the needs of particular audiences. IDJ offers a forum for sharing ideas about the verbal, visual, and typographic design of print and online documents, multimedia presentations, illustrations, signage, interfaces, maps, quantitative displays, websites, and new media. IDJ publishes research papers, case studies, critiques of information design and related theory, reviews of current literature, research-in-progress, interviews with thought leaders, discussions of practical problems, book reviews, and conference information.

International Journal of Art and Design Education provides an international forum for research in the field of the art and creative education. It is the primary source for the dissemination of independently refereed articles about the visual arts, creativity, crafts, design, and art history, in all aspects, phases and types of education contexts and learning situations.

International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation is an international publication that provides a forum for discussing the nature and potential of creativity and innovation in design from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

International Journal of Technology and Design Education encourages research and scholarly writing covering all aspects of technology and design education. The journal features critical, review, and comparative studies.

Journal of Design History is a leading journal in its field. It plays an active role in the development of design history, as well as contributing to the broader field of studies of visual and material culture.

Journal of Design Research is an interdisciplinary journal, emphasising human aspects as a central issue of design through integrative studies of social sciences and design disciplines. 

The Journal of Design and Science (JoDS), a joint venture of the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Press, forges new connections between science and design, breaking down the barriers between traditional academic disciplines in the process. 

Leonardo is a nonprofit organization that serves the global network of distinguished scholars, artists, scientists, researchers and thinkers through our programs, which focus on interdisciplinary work, creative output and innovation.

She-Ji is a peer-reviewed, trans-disciplinary design journal. We focus on economics and innovation, design process, and design thinking in today’s complex socio-technical environment. We are a diamond open access journal with no fees.

Strategic Design Research Journal [previously Portuguese but now entirely English] is a peer-reviewed, open-access, international journal that publishes articles related to the design process, for developing design theory and practice.

Strelka mag [Russian and English]

The Design Journal is an international refereed journal covering all aspects of design. The journal is published six times a year and provides a forum for design scholars, professionals, educators and managers worldwide.

Visible Language publishes manuscripts from communication design, neuroscience, cognition, perception, psychology, education, communication, informatics, computer science, library science, linguistics.

International Journal of Design (since 2016 requires a $1000 publication fee).

not ranked

Scopus

  • CoDesign
  • Design and Culture
  • International Journal of Art & Design Education
  • Working Papers in Art and Design
  • Design Management Journal

ISI

  • CoDesign
  • Design and Culture
  • Design Issues
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Issues
  • Leonardo
  • Journal of Design Research
  • Journal of Design History
  • Design Management Journal
  • Visible Language
  • The Design Journal
  • Working Papers in Art and Design
  • Journal of Performance and Art

qLab Colouring Feminist Activists Mini-Project

June 12, 2020

2019—

The qCollaborative is pleased to present our inaugural Colouring Feminist Activists, the first in a series of books designed by the lab to celebrate and contemplate the vital work done by leading feminist activists of the past and present.

21 colouring pages that include the following memorable activists: Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai, Tarana Burke, Greta Thunberg, Audre Lorde, Julie Rei Goldstein, Dr. Emma Sulkowicz, Chanel Miller, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, and more…

This book is intended as a space for both reflection and recognition of the public figures who model for us the kinds of work that need to be done, and who inspire us with their brilliance, bravery, and commitment to greater social equity. We see reflecting on and celebrating our feminist models as an important form of what Sara Ahmed in Living a Feminist Life (2017) calls homework: acts of working out our feminisms as a means of transforming and rebuilding the master’s house (in Audre Lorde’s infamous words) that we are often asked to negotiate and reside in.

  • Professionally printed, staple stitched, with a card cover
  • Measures 8.5 x 11 inches
  • Printed on 100% recycled paper!

The books can be used by all ages. However, if intended for a non-adult, please consider that this book includes references to abortion, and the #MeToo movement.

Created in collaboration with the qLab—Brianna Wiens, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Shana MacDonald, and Stan Ruecker—and the generous support from Michelle Priest and Dunia Tavcer.

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And enjoy this free download of our Maxine Waters!

Kid Stuck at Home Mini-Project

March 12, 2020

For those looking at some unplanned trapped at home with kids time, I just finished making an activity booklet for mine and added a few pages of activities for “when you’re stuck at home”. Some of the other activities can be modified to serve the same function, and I added a few tips specific to our current social-distancing situation. 

I hope it helps! Please feel free to share!

Arts & Humanities Education Mini-Project

September 12, 2019

Do you ever wonder why certain governments tend to seek the defunding of Arts and Humanities programs?

Building on The Humanities Matter! poster created by the University College London (UCL) Centre for Digital Humanities and 4Humanities, we created a new infographic arguing for the contributions made to contemporary society by arts and humanities education.

Arts and Humanities poster

Academic Freedom vs Freedom of Expression

August 12, 2019

Freedom of expression and academic freedom are vital in a democratic society. But Alberta and Ontario governments seem intent on undermining those freedoms by distorting their meaning.

To help add clarity to the debates, we’ve created a poster guide, free to print and share.

Freedom of expression poster

Depression is Not a Personal Failure Mini-Project

June 12, 2019

The ugly version of this poster was shared over 8k times. So, I created this one for slightly more aesthetic joy. 

Spread the message: depression is one of the consequences of living in toxic social, cultural, and political systems.

Dr. Milena Radzikowska

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