This process relies on steps familiar to designers: problem identification, research, and the cyclical process of iteration, making, and user testing.
Abstracts
Designing Products of the Future Through Speculative Design
In design education, it is vital to bring future thinking into class projects
Understanding Racial and Gender Bias in AI and How to Avoid It in Your Designs and Design Education
How biases are present in our design processes and design tools
Addressing Opportunity: The Landscape of Inequality
Investigating how space, social consciousness, and populations interact between the relationship of individual-level actions and community-level outcomes
Stories from the Mchafukoge: Kanga as a form of Visual Communication
Kanga cloth, cotton fabric wraps screen printed, typically in three colors, that measure about 39 inches x 59 inches, are bought and sold in Tanzania and Kenya
Visual and Verbal Communication on Sustainable Packaging As a Vehicle for Public Education and Awareness
There is no universal, standardized label to inform that packaging is sustainable
The Spectacle of Violence: Illustrating Surpanakha’s Mutilation
Research on the history of Amar Chitra Katha comics
Forensic Abstraction in Israel/Palestine: the Graphic Representations of Bodies in Citizen Media
The forensic visual investigations, from a design research perspective, using B’Tselem video in Israel/Palestine
Teaching Communications Design History Beyond the Canon
How do we avoid a “value this, discard that” attitude?
Feminine Archetypes on Women’s Suffrage Postcards as Agents of Propaganda
Insight into the prevailing beliefs of the early twentieth century