Comments for Design Thinking Foundations

Comment on Contact by Cameron Norman

Cameron Norman — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:46:51 +0000

Hi Walter, Thanks for the comment. The two programs that are most likely to suit your needs are the Institute Without Boundaries certificate at George Brown College in Toronto and the Strategic Foresight & Innovation Masters in Design at OCADU. I don't know of anything else in Canada.

Comment on Contact by Walter Bolívar

Walter Bolívar — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:35:04 +0000

Hi, i am from Colombia and i now i’m here in Montreal study english. I’m a graphic designer i finished my carrier in 2007 and i have a master in audiovisual comunication. I’m interesting in design thinking, my family have a bicycles store 30 years a go and i want to past to the next level whit the company. That is my little story, do you know if here, in Canada have some school for make a graduate, specialization, magister or certified about design thinking? thank you so much for you time.

Walter Bolívar

Comment on A Backstage Interview with Michael Bierut by admin

admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:34:39 +0000

Thanks for your comments. With regards to Micheal’s perspective, he is coming from the graphic design world where things are generated from nothing and rarely ‘undone’ like another type of designer who may try to take a product and re-shape it and edit it from a current form to another.

I think design could happen through reduction as a well as generation, although I don’t believe that they need to live apart. — Cameron

Comment on A Backstage Interview with Michael Bierut by sprungseven

sprungseven — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:29:14 +0000

Having watched through these videos twice, I’m still unsure exactly how I’d summarise what Michael is saying here. Taken at face value it seems he’s claiming that the essence (and joy) of design lies in the art of creating something from nothing.

Could design not happen through reduction? Could the simple removal of something to solve a problem not be considered valid design process?

Comment on A Backstage Interview with Michael Bierut by Mary Baum

Mary Baum — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:08:18 +0000

This is a huge point. In fact, the description here of design thinking smacks entirely of a system to either -best case – spread that joy of creating something from nothing throughout a bigger group of people with a bigger mission or -worst case – negate it entirely, as if to say that the thing that makes the designer different, the thing that makes the design good, isn’t so special or doesn’t exist at all, so we can get rid of the designer and use design thinking to get the same result ourselves without having to put up with this pesky person who actually knows how to do that fun thing we want to do instead of our real jobs.