Designomics: The Role of Financial Literacy in Design Innovation

Financial literacy is an essential component in design innovation projects, holding the potential to transform both the practice and education of design. The capacity to make effective financial decisions, encompassing knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy, is pivotal in the context of innovation (Warmath & Zimmerman, 2019). This capacity...

Empathic Habits: Improving conscious use of professional empathy within design education

Empathy is one of the 8 design competences of the study Communication & Multimedia Design at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. However, there is a gap within the curriculum regarding actively teaching students what it means to be an empathic designer, and it has not been completely clear what it actually means to be an empathic...

Playful learning through designing toys: Developing a design education toolkit for a non-profit organisation in rural Kenya

Sustainable Rural Initiatives (SRI) is a non-profit organisation in Okana, a rural community in West Kenya. SRI provides the community members of Okana with opportunities to develop practical skills such as carpentry and tailoring. SRI also works with international partners with specific expertise to give local community members opportunities to...

Empathy as a Design Skill: Practicing Six Key Attention Points

Empathy is an essential part of a collaboration and is often referred to in the design field. Not only it helps designers to step into their users’ shoes, but it also smoothens the communication between the designer and their stakeholder, client and, team members. If empathy is so important for collaboration in design and establishing human...

A learning space to support group-based learning for design education at IDE

The faculty of IDE hosts a lot of students, from which many participate in various group projects. There is a lack of suitable group work spaces. This project investigates how newly designed spaces could accommodate group work in the coming years. A literature study is done to determine what the new learning culture consists of and what it means...

Teamwork in Design Education: A framework and toolbox to integrate teamwork-related learning activities into a group design project course

In the past few decades, there has been an ongoing shift from work organised around individual jobs to team-based structures (Hansen, 2006; Edmondson et al., 2007; Bell et al., 2012). Teams can offer “greater adaptability, productivity, and creativity than any one individual can offer and provide more complex, innovative, and comprehensive...

Design of Experience Sampling Tools for Reporting Student Experience in Design Education

Considering the continuous design activities that are performed throughout the design projects, design students goes through several stages of decision makings, and sometimes experience problematic situations in between consecutive supervisory meetings. Revealing all experiences during the discussions with supervisors, thus communicating the...