As someone who went through 4 years of business school for a graduate degree in business, it took me a while to unlearn design as only drawing for self or emotive expression despite me being able to actually design while unlearning my previous, inaccurate understanding of the term design.
I was also given the impression during college days that designing a solution to a business or marketing issue is part of the managers (or director/vp) job role rather than a dedicated job role of its own. I peg that to lack of awareness of what design is by the curriculum designers (or as I would say curriculum planners previous to truly understanding what design is.) You're (Zhang) probably already designing solutions (I'm presuming your course allows you to find alternate solutions to issues in case studies) without being aware of it. I'm personally looking for workshops to learn design methodologies so I can use it as a reference to describe my own 'natural process' of how I ideate/design solutions whether it be for interaction design or marketing. I'm not really convinced graphics design or general visual design courses would make the cut though. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47838 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
